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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (55035)	5/29/2009 5:18:27 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Respond to of 149317

Her rulings are available for reading. at least some 500 odd pages are that I know about. methinks they are far more relevant than a couple of comments that aren't even being aired (mostly) in their context. And Glenn Greenwald has a fine piece on the time he appeared before her for a case, as does another lawyer who has appeared before her over 20 times.

To: TimF who wrote (55035)	5/29/2009 5:53:13 PM
From: nigel bates	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

>>I'm looking at her statements not her judgments.<< So you are ignoring the most important evidence. And if you were really looking at her statements, rather than a few phrases being quoted against her without full context, what would you make of this ? "...I am reminded each day that I render decisions that affect people concretely and that I owe them constant and complete vigilance in checking my assumptions, presumptions and perspectives and ensuring that to the extent that my limited abilities and capabilities permit me, that I reevaluate them and change as circumstances and cases before me requires. I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate..." Did you object to Alito on the basis of this statement ? "When I get a case about discrimination, I have to think about people in my own family who suffered discrimination because of their ethnic background or because of religion or because of gender. And I do take that into account. .."