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Lindsey Graham: Sotomayor Could Get My Vote


Sotomayor picks up key endorsements
High court nominee Sonia Sotomayor was praised by the American Bar Association and law enforcement.
BY MICHAEL DOYLE AND DAVID LIGHTMAN
McClatchy News Service

WASHINGTON -- The nation's lawyers and law enforcement leaders gave Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor ringing endorsements Tuesday, even as Republicans tried to rally opposition.

With Sotomayor's Senate confirmation hearing less than a week away, the American Bar Association announced that the 54-year-old appellate judge is ''well qualified'' to serve on the nation's highest court. The unanimous recommendation is the association's highest grade for a potential judge.

''The only way she can get derailed is if she performs poorly next week,'' acknowledged Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a Senate Judiciary Committee member. He said he was still undecided, but added, ``I honestly think I could vote for her.''

Separately, the Fraternal Order of Police and other law-enforcement organizations convened to reiterate their support for Sotomayor. The law enforcement endorsements coincided with the release of a Senate Judiciary Committee study showing that as an appellate judge, Sotomayor voted to affirm 92 percent of the criminal convictions that came before her.

A one-time New York City prosecutor and trial judge, Sotomayor nearly always sided with Republican appointees in criminal cases that the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals considered, the study shows. She sat with Republican-named judges on more than 400 criminal cases as an appellate judge, and agreed with all Republican appointees 97 percent of the time.

Appellate panels on which Sotomayor served reversed only 2 percent of convictions. Among their affirmation rates: cases involving illegal firearms, 98 percent; drug offenses, 93 percent; criminal immigration violations, 92 percent; and economic crime, 93 percent.

''It is clear that she weighs the facts in evidence and makes her rulings based on the merits of the case,'' said Chuck Canterbury, the president of the Fraternal Order of Police. ``She is a model jurist: tough, fair-minded and mindful of the constitutional protections afforded to all U.S. citizens.''

Still, Republicans stayed on the warpath. On the Senate floor, Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, told Senate colleagues that too many judges base decisions on personal feelings, a nod to President Barack Obama's notion that empathy is an important quality for a Supreme Court justice to possess.

''Whatever the new empathy standard is, it is not law,'' Sessions said. ``It is more akin to politics than law. Whenever a judge puts his or her thumb on the scale of justice in favor of one party or another, the judge necessarily disfavors the other party.''

Another Senate Judiciary Committee member, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said in an interview that while he'd taken no stand on Sotomayor, ``I don't think we've seen the complete picture yet.''

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Of course, that piece of garbage is a complete sellout. He should just switch parties. Maybe there's room for him on the Socialist ticket.

Everyone in South Carolina that likes E-Verify needs to call and email Graham.

Sotomayor is going to be for AMNESTY groupies of any kind. And of course Latino this and that which is for the illegal aliens. Come to America and have that anchor baby for free, go live in the projects, and more freebies.

''The only way she can get derailed is if she performs poorly next week,'' acknowledged Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a Senate Judiciary Committee member. He said he was still undecided, but added, ``I honestly think I could vote for her.''




She has performed poorly her entire judicial career and then some but this bozo is going to base his decision on what she does next week.......flippin' idiot

Originally Posted by azwreath

''The only way she can get derailed is if she performs poorly next week,'' acknowledged Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a Senate Judiciary Committee member. He said he was still undecided, but added, ``I honestly think I could vote for her.''




She has performed poorly her entire judicial career and then some but this bozo is going to base his decision on what she does next week.......flippin' idiot

The traitor is as stupid as always............I honestly believe he does not know what honesty and integrity are.

''The only way she can get derailed is if she performs poorly next week,'' acknowledged Sen. Lindsey Graham

In other words, he doesn't have the hoo-has to vote against her in committee. RINO Why doesn't Graham just priss on over to the Democrats with Specter.

Dixie

Lindsay Graham needs our phone calls to remind him of the racist ways and the racist comments of Sotomayor.
this is absolutely incredible

-- a supporter of amnesty and all things dealing with illegal immigration. And you bloody fools in SC re-elected him. You deserve what harm he wreaks, but the rest of us will pay for it too.

Laura Ingraham is talking about some of her decisions.
apparently she threw out a convicted murders verdict even though the killer never challenged the verdict, sotomayor claims that the person was charged with the wrong killing, whatever the hell that means.

she also overturned another murder verdict because she claims the jurors got the wrong instructions.

overturned a drug dealer as well

ya have to listen to this to beleive it, its insane.

Graham is already the darling of the Pro-Amnesty groups, he spent last summer and fall speaking with all of the Pro-Amnesty Special Interest Groups! He was also one of the Pro-Amnesty Senators who received a wink from then President Bush with a comment of "I will see you at the signing" of course referring to their anticipated signing of their adored Blanket Amnesty Bill.