Obama’s long-time legal mentor warned him in writing Justice Sotomayor was not that smart
Even far-left Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe saw the writing on the wall when Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was nominated for her post.Tribe is a radical who’s dismissed the Constitution as partly “stupid” and described top-rated Fox News host Tucker Carlson as “a dangerous anti-democracy demagogue,”
Flashback to 2010, a year after Sotomayor was confirmed. Shocking reports emerged at the time that then-President Barack Obama’s longtime legal mentor had in the previous year urged him to nominate Elena Kagen, not Sotomayor, to the high court.
That longtime mentor was none other than Tribe.
“In May 2009, after Justice David Souter announced his retirement from the Supreme Court, Laurence H. Tribe, the prominent Harvard Law professor, wrote a two-page letter to President Obama that bluntly laid out his views about several justices and potential nominees,” The New York Times reported on Oct. 28th, 2010.
“The letter was leaked to Ed Whelan, a former Bush administration lawyer who is the president of the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center, and he posted it on the center’s Web site on Thursday.”
The full letter is still available for review on Whelan’s website.
Tribe began the letter by stressing the importance of Obama’s pick, noting that Justice Souter’s resignation was “an opportunity to lay the groundwork for a series of appointments that will gradually move the Court in a pragmatically progressive direction.”
Immediately in the next paragraph, he went to work bashing Sotomayor, who at the time was seated on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
“If you were to appoint someone like Sonia Sotomayor, whose personal history and demographic appeal you don’t need me to underscore, I am concerned that the impact within the Court would be negative in these respects,” he wrote.
“Bluntly put, she’s not nearly as smart as she seems to think she is, and her reputation for being something of a bully could well make her liberal impulses backfire and simply add to the fire power of the Roberts/Alito/Scalia/Thomas wing of the Court.”
That she’s “not nearly as smart as she seems to think she is” was demonstrated last week, when she issued a stunning series of factually inaccurate statements during a hearing about President Joe Biden’s business vaccinate mandate.
Obama's long-time legal mentor warned him in writing Justice Sotomayor was not that smart · American Wire News
Radical left-wing law professor Laurence Tribe warned Barack Obama about Sonia Sotomayor before she was confirmed as a justice in 2009.
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Obama's long-time legal mentor warned him in writing Justice Sotomayor was not that smart · American Wire News
Radical left-wing law professor Laurence Tribe warned Barack Obama about Sonia Sotomayor before she was confirmed as a justice in 2009.
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