 merrie says: Now it appears from a NYT story that between 1983 and 1986, on behalf of some friends or friends of friends, Sotomayor wrote a few wills, incorporated a few businesses, or helped skim the closing documents for a few condo sales under the exaggerated firm name of "Sotomayor & Associates" while she was really a full-time employee of the Manhattan D.A.'s office or another law firm. I agree with my blogospheric friend and fellow lawyer Andrew McCarthy that it doesn't take a sophisticated legal analysis for anyone, lawyer or layman, to recognize that claiming to be "Sotomayor & Associates" " when you really don't have any associates " is stupid and misleading. It ought not be done. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/us/politics/07firm.html?_r=1 I very, very seriously doubt, however, that lawyer Sotomayor's transgression in exaggerating the size of her firm ever actually misled anyone. . . As small potatoes go, this one is pea-sized or smaller. And as misrepresentations with disastrous public consequences go, this one is utterly microscopic in comparison with, for example, almost any one of Obama’s presidential campaign promises, or his own claims to have had significant experience to prepare him for that office. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit clears her on waivers - “but, really wanted her.” "Sonia Sotomayer & Associates" ... meh, who cares? Nothing has happened since May 26 to make me change my initial take on Pres. Obama's nomination of U.S. Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor to fill Justice Souter's seat on the Supreme Court. (That take, in short, was this: Obama would never nominate anyone of whom I approved, and Judge Sotomayor, if confirmed, will vote the same way as Souter has, but be no more effective than Souter was (and perhaps less so) at swaying the Court's swing vote, Kennedy, in close cases. Republicans should use every opportunity to demonstrate how disastrous it is for the ... This Sotomayor stuff is stupid. If a white guy talked about the superiority of his race’s reasoning abilities, no one would care. /s And also, I just love the old Smoke and Mirrors ploy, with solid wall to wall coverage of Sonia, meanwhile, the oligarchs on the Beltway are poised to ram ObamaCare through tomorrow! |
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