Posts Tagged ‘Supreme Court’
Don’t Worry 2nd Amendment Supporters, Kids Will Probably Still Have Guns to Shoot Themselves With
2:38 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · children|Justice|Politics|society|youth · Comments Off
21 Jul 2009To all you worried guys in the video above, fear not. Gun control is, as of today, still dead in this country. Just look at this:
A five-year-old boy died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds in Hamilton, Ohio, the Journal News newspaper reported online.The death was from an “accidental, self-inflicted gunshot”, Debbie Lacey, the coroner’s investigator, was quoted as saying late Monday.
The boy, Zachariah Nesbitt, shot himself Saturday night at his home with a 9mm Glock handgun. The bullet went through his lung, Lacey said.
The boy died later Saturday night.
Police were investigating. In the call to emergency services, a man believed to be Zachariah’s father, David Nesbitt, was quoted as saying: “Oh, my God, no. He got my (expletive) gun out of the closet.”
Fear not, arms bearers! This “activist judge” has vowed to simply interpret the law as it is written (video after the jump). So relax, you still might have to put a padlock on your gun cabinet so Junior doesn’t get in there.
More Defending the “Wise Latina” Comment
6:50 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Politics|race · 1 Comment
16 Jul 2009In the past two days of confirmation hearings, Sonia Sotomayor was made to “clarify” her now infamous “wise Latina” statement countless times. Yesterday afternoon she went up against Republican Senator from Texas John Cornyn in yet another attempt to quiet the accusations of racial bias (see video above). While she is totally not owning the statement, she wins the battle of rhetoric here and Cornyn is clearly grasping at straws. Score one for Sotomayor.
After the jump, video of Sotomayor defending the statement to Senator Patrick Leahy (D) of Vermont on Monday.
Spanish Language Ad Supporting Sonia Sotomayor
30 May 2009I’ll admit that I haven’t been paying close enough attention to how the Spanish language media has been reporting on the Sonia Sotomayor nomination.
Americans United for Change have put out a Spanish language ad urging people to call their senators to support Sotomayor.
Read the script in Spanish and English after the jump.
Justice is About How Laws Impact Our Daily Lives
12:10 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Justice|Politics|Women · 4 Comments
28 May 2009Check out this ad spot from ConstitutionalValues.Org promoting Sotomayor as the U.S.’s next Supreme Court Justice.
“In selecting Judge Sotomayor, the president has nominated a candidate of sterling credentials who will uphold the Constitution and the law. We commend President Obama for choosing a brilliant and fair-minded jurist to serve on our nation’s highest court. Judge Sotomayor is precisely the kind of nominee we need – one who, as President Obama described, ‘has the intellectual firepower but also a little bit of a common touch and has a practical sense of how the world works.’” – Nan Aron, co-chair of the Coalition for Constitutional Values and president of Alliance for Justice.
Via / Culture Kitchen
Obama on Sotomayor Nomination
5:01 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Justice|Obama|Politics · 1 Comment
26 May 2009This just in via email from the Obama camp: the official statement about the Sotomayor nomination:
As La Macha mentioned in her previous post about the Sotomayor appointment, the romanticism around the parents who worked around the clock to get the judge where she is today is a big part of the rhetoric, and echoed in the Obama statement.
Either way, this appointment is, to me, the only (albeit ineffective) salve for my disgust over the Prop 8 ruling.
Via / BarackObama.com
Obama to Nominate Latina to Supreme Court
8:11 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Obama|Politics · 4 Comments
26 May 2009
In about an hour, President Obama will announce his nominee for the spot retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter will leave open and numerous sources point to Puerto Rican from the Bronx, federal Judge Sonia Sotomayor. Speculation was that Obama would be picking a mujer and a Latina.
I don’t know much about Sotomayor’s record to make a statement of support for the nomination, pero this is a historic moment as she would be the first Latina to serve on the Supreme Court.
As Liza over at Culture Kitchen has pointed out, expect the right to attack Sotomayor’s gender and ethnicity using all the stereotypes they can pull out of their asses.
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