{"id":13464,"date":"2013-02-28T22:11:56","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T03:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=13464"},"modified":"2013-02-28T22:12:25","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T03:12:25","slug":"sotomayor-kagan-ready-for-battles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/02\/28\/sotomayor-kagan-ready-for-battles\/","title":{"rendered":"Sotomayor, Kagan ready for battles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Washington Post<\/em> has the piece <a title=\"Washington Post article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/dana-milbank-sotomayor-kagan-ready-for-battles\/2013\/02\/27\/ee1fa09e-812f-11e2-a350-49866afab584_story.html?hpid=z2\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sotomayor, Kagan ready for battles<\/strong><\/a> by Dana Milbank. A few excerpts might give you the gist of the article.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The acerbic Scalia, the court\u2019s longest-serving justice, got his latest comeuppance Wednesday morning, as he tried to make the absurd argument that Congress\u2019s renewal of the Voting Rights Act in 2006 by votes of 98 to 0 in the Senate and 390 to 33 in the House did not mean that Congress actually supported the act. Scalia, assuming powers of clairvoyance, argued that the lawmakers were secretly afraid to vote against this \u201cperpetuation of racial entitlement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kagan wasn\u2019t about to let him get away with that. In a breach of decorum, she interrupted his questioning of counsel to argue with him directly. \u201cWell, that sounds like a good argument to me, Justice Scalia,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was clear to 98 senators, including every senator from a covered state, who decided that there was a continuing need for this piece of legislation.\u201d<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nSotomayor allowed the lawyer for the Alabama county seeking to overturn the law to get just four sentences into his argument before interrupting him. \u201cAssuming I accept your premise \u2014 and there\u2019s some question about that \u2014 that some portions of the South have changed, your county pretty much hasn\u2019t,\u201d she charged. \u201cWhy would we vote in favor of a county whose record is the epitome of what caused the passage of this law to start with?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently these women Justices and Senators like Elizabeth Warren just don&#8217;t know how to show the proper deference to the bullies of the world.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why I voted for Warren and am glad that Obama appointed these two Justices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post has the piece Sotomayor, Kagan ready for battles by Dana Milbank. A few excerpts might give you the gist of the article. The acerbic Scalia, the court\u2019s longest-serving justice, got his latest comeuppance Wednesday morning, as he tried to make the absurd argument that Congress\u2019s renewal of the Voting Rights Act in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13466,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13464\/revisions\/13466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}