Holy Cr@p! SOTOMAYOR did this?!?

[SuperHornet]

President Obama's handpicked Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor has issued an emergency stay blocking enforcement of the ObamaCare birth control mandate against religious groups pending resolution of the Hobby Lobby lawsuit.

Wow!



http://www.theminorityreportblog.com/20 ... us-groups/

[Col Hogan]

We will see on Friday if that praise is merited...

[JoltinJoe]

As someone who appeared in Judge Sotomayor's courtroom on a number of occasions, let me say that the depiction of her as a flaming liberal is really not accurate. She is highly principled, reasoned, intelligent, and sensitive to individual freedoms. Also, as a practicing Catholic (think Pope Francis type of Catholic), she probably understands the Catholic Church's teachings on this issue and the moral predicament this government mandate poses for a practicing Catholic. She may have a liberal outlook on many issues, but she is not knee jerk.

I say good for her.

[GannonFan]

As someone who appeared in Judge Sotomayor's courtroom on a number of occasions, let me say that the depiction of her as a flaming liberal is really not accurate. She is highly principled, reasoned, intelligent, and sensitive to individual freedoms. Also, as a practicing Catholic (think Pope Francis type of Catholic), she probably understands the Catholic Church's teachings on this issue and the moral predicament this government mandate poses for a practicing Catholic. She may have a liberal outlook on many issues, but she is not knee jerk.

I say good for her.

I think that temperament is quite common among Supreme Court justices. No matter which side of the fence they reside on in terms of ideology, they aren't knee-jerk message board type people - they tend to be extremely well reasoned and well thought out people in terms of what they believe in or what they judge. That gets lost a lot these days when people on both sides of the aisle make snap judgments on decisions that they may spend a tiny fraction of time considering compared to the time that the justices debate this.

With that said, the decision in this case to grant a stay isn't a crazy one or a big deal - there's obviously enough debate about this that this is just a prudent decision. Not a hard one for Sotomayor to make.