Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) apparently didn’t recognize the trend, because he’s complaining that Sotomayor’s testimony has not been as clear as Justice Roberts or Alito’s. He must not have watched the same proceedings we did. Fortunately, that’s why we have video:
[Via Think Progress]
This year, Sotomayor was part of a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York that held the 2nd Amendment did not apply to the states. At a news conference Wednesday, Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and other senators said they were concerned about the decision and pledged to grill Sotomayor about it at her confirmation hearings, which begin July 13.
The panel’s reasoning, Sessions said, “would eviscerate the 2nd Amendment in many parts of the country.”
Republicans shouldn’t press this one too far, though, unless guns are important enough for them to admit they’re hypocrites when it comes to judicial philosophy. After all, Sotomayor was ruling in exactly the way conservatives typically advocate:
Democrats and gun control groups argue, however, that Sotomayor and the other members of the panel were following a restrained approach to the case by declining to rule on an issue the Supreme Court has yet to take up.
How restrained? This restrained:
in an opinion a few weeks ago, in a Chicago gun-control case, a panel of conservative appellate judges said Judge Sotomayor and her colleagues on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit had gotten it right.
I’m sure Sessions and Co. would say it was different. The conservative justices were protecting freedom. Sotomayor and her judicial-activist buddies were running an end-run around the constitution to further their goal of destroying real Americans.
Sotomayor looks like an easy prospect for confirmation. Watch Obama discuss his choice below.
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