President Obama has picked Judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace the retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter.
That’s cool, I guess. I haven’t really had time to sit down and figure her out. But today’s “All Things Considered” interview with Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) isn’t helping much.
Maybe it’s the cornfed upper midwestern accent, but Sen. Grassley expresses nothing quite so much as an extreme – if patient – bewilderment with what is happening around him.
He praises reporters for doing their jobs, when they remind him that he’d voted against Sotomayor in the past. He was all “Thank God for journalists like you,” because he just didn’t remember that.
And then there’s this weird passage that made me pull over to the side of the road. It wasn’t so much of a Driveway Moment as a complete and total WTF moment:
I like to think of a Justice of the Supreme Court being similar in their action as to the blindfold of Lady Justice over the court of the Supreme Court. She holds the scales of justice! I like to see a Supreme Court Justice who is, in a sense, blindfolded, looking over the narrow parameters of the law and the Constitution and making a decision.
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I do think that, that more women, and, and more people of minority, are more important.
Which leads me to an important realization:
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I record Senator Grassley every week and he is, above all, honest. He does tend to talk in circles but he eventually gets to his point. He probably voted against the initial appointment of Ms. Sotomayor as a political statement. Now, I think he will carefully analyze her qualifications and record and vote for her.
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