Cruz scorches Sotomayor over court critique, turns tables on her dissent

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Cruz scorches Sotomayor over court critique, turns tables on her dissent
By Ronn Blitzer | Fox News

    Republican Sen. Ted Cruz on Tuesday tore into Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor for a widely noticed dissent in which she blasted her colleagues for lifting injunctions on controversial Trump administration policies.

During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the use of nationwide injunctions – which stop policies from taking effect – Cruz cast the blame on liberal jurists for what he described as an abnormal number of these measures against the Trump administration in the first place. He accused judges of acting as "partisan political activists."

This, he argued, has reasonably resulted in the government fighting back.

"I read it a little bit like an arsonist complaining about the noise from the fire trucks," Cruz said of Sotomayor's dissenting opinion in Wolf v. Cook County, which dealt with regulations placing restrictions on non-citizens applying for visas to enter the U.S.

A lower court had issued a nationwide injunction against the administration, blocking the regulations, although the Cook County case only dealt with an Illinois injunction. Sotomayor used her to dissent to rail against the administration for its repeated tactic of applying for emergency stays so injunctions could be put on hold.

"It is hard to say what is more troubling," Sotomayor wrote, "that the Government would seek this extraordinary relief seemingly as a matter of course, or that the Court would grant it," she wrote.

But Cruz turned the issue around, stating that the Trump administration would not have to take such measures if judges were not granting an unusual number of nationwide injunctions.

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[catfish1957]

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Cruz scorches Sotomayor over court critique, turns tables on her dissent

We really need a militant conservative SCOTUS judge to negate the effects of Sotomayer and Kagan.

Scalia in essence has not been replaced yet.

Hope Cruz gets the next nod.

[rangerrebew]

February 29, 2020
Cruz Scorches Sotomayor over Trump Critique
By Daniel John Sobieski

Before Sonia Sotomayor,  the “wise Latina” as she once referred to herself, was nominated by President Barack Hussein Obama in May 2009 and confirmed as Supreme Court justice that August, her legal expertise and judgment were being questioned by those noting her high reversal rate by the court she was being elevated to:

    Three of the five majority opinions written by Judge Sotomayor for the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals and reviewed by the Supreme Court were reversed, providing a potent line of attack raised by opponents Tuesday after President Obama announced he will nominate the 54-year-old Hispanic woman to the high court.

    “Her high reversal rate alone should be enough for us to pause and take a good look at her record. Frankly, it is the Senate’s duty to do so,” said Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/02/cruz_scorches_sotomayor_over_trump_critique.html

[catfish1957]

I can remember back when she was nominated there was huge universal outrage and acclaim that this individual was probably worse than any other Circuit Judge nationwide around attempting to legislate from the bench.

Seems that she has performed as advertised.  And we 20 more years of this too to boot.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

I can remember back when she was nominated there was huge universal outrage and acclaim that this individual was probably worse than any other Circuit Judge nationwide around attempting to legislate from the bench.

Seems that she has performed as advertised.  And we 20 more years of this too to boot.

She's only 65.  Could be even more years of her than that.