Community | May 29, 2009 | 11 comments

How Green is Sonia Sotomayor?

source: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/05/sonia-sotomayor-green.php

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Now that some of the dust has settled after the initial news frenzy, we've gotten a bit of a better idea how Sonia Sotomayer stands on green issues. This is important stuff--since an appointment to the Supreme Court is lifelong, she's got to be green for life.

Environmentalists like what they see in Sotomayer. There are a number of reasons for this, even though she doesn't have an extensive record on environmental policy issues.

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How important is Sotomayor's green credentials to you? Where does being green fit into your criteria for a Supreme Court Justice?
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11 comments // How Green is Sonia Sotomayor?

  • bombastinator
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      bombastinator  

    • my memory or judicial appointments of the past is that it is less important how good a person is than what dirt can be dug up on them. Do these green credentials put her at odds with any major corporations with the funding to help oppose her appointment?

    • 2 years ago
  • twitterbot
  • rockstarmillionaire
  • ilikeike
  • unclecharlie
  • Scarabus
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      Scarabus  
    • rockstarmillionaire:

      Uncle C, you say she opposes the right to own a gun? Wowzo!

      I grant your earnestness, but in return you have to grant that to most folks that will seem a really, really, really weird assertion. I've never known any public figure, of any party, who suggested that. Certainly not such a brilliant and successful judge.

      Doesn't mean you're wrong! Truth and reality are sometimes weird (e.g. Law of General Relativity or quantum mechanics or Brownian motion or chaos theory).

      This is different, though. Pardon me, but this sounds more like conspiracy theory than mainstream discourse. Can you provide documentation for that assertion?

    • 2 years ago
  • unclecharlie
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      unclecharlie  
    • rockstarmillionaire:

      Actually, scarabus, it could be complete nonsense. I read it in another Current news topic. It said she believed the 2nd amendment guaranteed the right only to members of the military. I will have to do some research, and yes, I will see what the NRA says about her.....

    • 2 years ago
  • jubal
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      jubal  

    • From the point of view of another Latino mixed person, I know how important the Earth and the environment is to most Spanish speaking people that I have ever met. There is a history because of the mixing of the white conquistadors and the indigenous peoples of the Americas that is long intertwined with a healthy respect for nature.

      I think that from her cultural background she would be bound to that care and preoccupation with jurisprudence that supports longevity to the species and to the planet.

    • 2 years ago
  • twitterbot
  • Scarabus
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      Scarabus  

    • It's tricky. Ordinarily track record is a good basis on which to bet. But long-shots can win, favorites can lose, and appointees to the SCOTUS are wild-card unknowns.

      The dark side? A justice decides, in effect, "I'm here for life. I can be as 'bad' as I want." The side of light? "I no longer need worry about politics or popularity. This isn't a joke. This is serious! I must do what I think objectively is right. And I will!"

    • 2 years ago
  • pjacobs51
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      pjacobs51  

    • Her credentials look great, and being "green" should be of #1 importance in todays world. The lives of every living thing (on Earth) depends on it.

      As she said in her hearing:

      "I have absolutely no idea about the science of global warming," she said at one point during the hearing. "But if the science is right, we have relegated ourselves to killing the world in the foreseeable future. Not in centuries to come but in the very near future."

    • 2 years ago
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