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Supreme Court Halts Chrysler Sale
It looks like the U.S. Constitution may have a fighting chance after all.
The Supreme Court has stepped in and temporarily blocked the sale of Chrysler to Fiat.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg signed an order temporarily stopping the sale and may decide to have the matter heard by the entire court.
The Obama administration decided to cast aside the law and make up their own bankruptcy rules to reward the union and hose bond holders.
The Chrysler deal is blatantly unconstitutional and it’s almost inconceivable that the Supreme Court would allow it to go through.
Obama and his auto task force are acting like a bunch of gangsters and hopefully the Supreme Court is about to put them in check.
Obama Picks Sotomayor
President Obama announced today that federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor is his choice to replace Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court.
Here’s what the AP has about her:
Sotomayor is a self-described "Newyorkrican" who grew up in a Bronx housing project after her parents moved to New York from Puerto Rico. She has dealt with diabetes since age 8 and lost her father at age 9, growing up under the care of her mother in humble surroundings. As a girl, inspired by the Perry Mason television show, she knew she wanted to be a judge.
A graduate of Princeton University and Yale Law School, a former prosecutor and private attorney, Sotomayor became a federal judge for the Southern District of New York in 1992.
As a judge, she has a bipartisan pedigree. She was first appointed by a Republican, President George H.W. Bush, then named an appeals judge by President Bill Clinton in 1997.
At her Senate confirmation hearing more than a decade ago, she said, "I don’t believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it."
In one of her most memorable rulings as federal district judge, Sotomayor essentially salvaged baseball in 1995, ruling with players over owners in a labor strike that had led to the cancellation of the World Series.
As an appellate judge, she sided with the city of New Haven, Conn., in a discrimination case brought by white firefighters after the city threw out results of a promotion exam because two few minorities scored high enough. Ironically, that case is now before the Supreme Court.
Just because she was first appointed by President George H.W. Bush doesn’t mean she has a “bipartisan pedigree” like the AP claims.
Make no mistake about it, Sotomayor is a liberal through and through. One only has to look at her judicial record to know this.
She’ll be a reliable tool of labor unions (like our president) and will rule in favor of minorities not because they have the best legal case but because she has “empathy.”
Having said all that, Obama can nominate anyone he wants and at this moment in time Republicans can do little to stand in the way.
All things considered Obama could have picked someone much worse. Sotomayor is not going to change the balance of the court so it’s really not that big a deal.
It’s the next SCOTUS pick that’s going to change the game.
As liberal as Sotomayor is, I suspect Obama’s next pick is going to make her seem to the right of Scalia.
-Chris Jones
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