Morning Docket 10.06.09
* This is the first case of the Supreme Court’s new term… [Associated Press]
* …but the most interesting case may be Scalia vs. Sotomayor. [National Law Journal via ABA Journal]
* Apparently tere are not enough lawyers — for the poor facing foreclosure, that is. [USA Today]
* The limbo of the deferred. [Wall Street Journal]
* New York’s calorie posting law is not especially nutritional. [New York Times]
* This is the trial that never ends. Yes, it goes on an on, my friends. The jury started deliberating over it, not knowing what it was. Now they’ll continue deliberating forever just because… [New York Times]




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I don't like Soto asking Q's on her 1st day. Roberts gets a pass because he is Chief. Interesting that the only other two, Breyer & Soto, are arrogant liberal dems who are camera / media hogs. Let's bring back the tradition of the newest justice keeping their mouth shut the 1st day, shall we?
Link on #5 is the same as #6, definitely not in reference to the same article.
Blank Rome is hiring grads from TTTemple, tsk, tsk. Guess that's what happens when the firm's managing partner is a senior in high school.
Question for Mrs. Lat, what are your thoughts on Elie banging your son?
In Astor, perhaps the prosecutors made a slight miscalculation in going on and on for 5 months. If this is headed for a hung jury or a mistrial, do you think their new boss will have any patience for a retrial?
OK, and how many other bad guys did you put behind bars last year while you were going after this guy that's going to die soon anyway?
Did Soto ask the questions in English or Spanish?
In discussing the Miranda rights case, I thought Scalia was out of line when he referred to Sotomayor as "Carmen Miranda."
I thought Sotomayor was out of line when she asked Scalia if he and the other Corleones used Miranda warnings.
30 to 36. Those are impressive numbers. But how about the "no offer" Brett Favre gave to his old team last night? 24 receptions in 31 attempts. 3 touchdown passes. His mental toughness continues to overrule his opponents. The verdict is definitely in on this one: Brett Favre is back.
another titillating day at ATL.
An on an on an on...
I bet old Soto takes really angry dumps, emerging from the bathroom sweaty and trembling.
The bathroom analyzer
Your two TTTimes links both go to the Astor article...
Taco flavored farts
and burrito scented kisses?
From USA Today:
"The nation's foreclosure crisis has swamped lawyers for the poor, leaving thousands of low-income homeowners across the country without legal assistance that could save their homes."
Of course, we already have enough lawyers in podunk USA, wasting their time. Right, Scalia?
18 - That's right.
- Scalia (a loyal ATL reader)
18 - Shockingly, there are often shortages of people willing to provide services to those unwilling to pay them.
Nuts, I know.
Sotomayor is tough...no doubt about it.
She might be a little less "humble," and a little more presumptuous/demanding than one who comes from the "proper" upper middle class America, but it might just be that quality, in part, that has gotten her to the top of the legal profession.
She will be interesting to watch, certainly.
No, it wasn't quality that got her to the top, it was affirmative action. She has admitted so.
I just want to wish Justice Ginsburg good luck, we're all counting on her.
Yep, 22, AA is what made Soto summa cum laude at Princeton. You're a fucking genius, aren't you?
24 - Once you are an Ivy League school, you will not flunk (unless you commit some crime). They make sure, especially if you are a product of affirmative action. Besides, Soto HAS gone on record as saying affirmative action helped her - why is so hard for you to understand something so simple that even Corky would understand it?
25,
I know it hurts you to accept that a non-white person can dance intellectual circles around you and has achieved more success than you ever will. I understand the hurt you must feel. But keep fighting the good fight.
According to your incredible logic (assuming you're also the genius behind #22), her personal skills have nothing to do with her success since she is Latina. I wonder if she, Thomas, and Obama were the only non-white people to graduate from law school. They must be according to you. Douche.
Try again.
Hang on, Ruth!
26 - Time for your medication.... shhhhhhh... it's OK. Soon, you will see your poppy... he has some candy for you! Yes he does!! He DOES!!
By they way, I didn't say her success was because she was Latina, I said her success was because of benefiting from Affirmative Action. SOTO HAS SAID THIS HERSELF! If you look up in the sky & someone says, 'Oh look, it's blue', do you argue otherwise?? It's FACT. Try to do a little research on the net & find the quite from SOTO herself - idiot.
By the way, part two - go fuck yourself.
22 & 25 "Once you are an Ivy League school, you will not flunk"
Maybe AA opened the door, but it didn't hand her the grades to make her summa cum laude at Princeton. If anything, her success is the proof that AA has merit.
Do you knock AA because you are afraid of the competition? Maybe your white upper-middle class upbringing didn't teach you to grow a pair and bring your A game.
29 - Who says I am white?
28, thanks for proving me right.
Let me hold your hand and walk you through this so that you can understand:
- You said it is BECAUSE of AA.
- AA applies to minorities.
- Soto is Latina
- Latino = minority
Using the word "FACT" in capital letters does not remove the stench from your shitty argument.
I will make sure to find that "quite" from Supreme Court Justice Soto as soon as I can.
Try again, babaganoush.
Yours,
26
31 = Douche. Stupid Douche.
Hey No. 31 - since you are too stupid to find it, here it is:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/11/sotomayor-affirmative-action-sent-princeton/
Now, again, go fuck yourself.
25, 28, 32 and 33,
Thanks for so eloquently continuing to prove me right. Keep it up!
Yours,
26 & 31
Uh, 34, 33 proved you wrong re: Soto saying she benefited from AA. You said (with misspelling), "I will make sure to find that "quite" from Supreme Court Justice Soto as soon as I can." He gave it to you. Now suck it! HAHAHAHAH! Bitch got owned!
33 = 35 = pathetic.
33 = 35 = pathetic.
Try again.
36 must be a product of affirmative action.
38, feel better about yourself now?
What else you got?
AIDS your mama gave me.
Are you a lawyer? Really? REALLY?
God help us. Keep it up, winner!
Yes, yes I am. And I am going to be one for a LONG time. Suck it!
I agree. You will never reach any higher. 100% agree.