publiusvarus wrote:
Locked,
You sound like Sotomayer. Ignore an important question and makes jokes hoping nobody will notice you've completely ignored the question.
And, so sorry, let's try doing this better:
Quote:
Republican Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma pushed Sotomayor to express her opinions on whether certain abortions would be legal and whether a person has a fundamental right to possess firearms and a right to self-defense. Each time, Sotomayor said she would need to know the specifics of a particular case, such as applicable state statutes and other facts.
Sensing Coburn 's frustration over her responses, she offered an explanation.
"What we do is different than the conversations citizens have about what they want the law to do," Sotomayor said on the third day of her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing.
Judges look at the facts of a case and apply the law based on those facts, she said.
"It's not that we make a broad policy choice and say this is what we want," she continued.
Quotes obviously taken out of any sort of context, but it seems to me like she's not avoiding the question so much as saying "I decided based on a case by case basis; I'm not setting up policy. I'd look at the individual case and decide." Not a bad answer.