| 5-2-09 - DREAM - I had a job in a large office working on a computer - I
wanted to use a web page and pulled up the wrong program. It had the same
type screen, but was light yellow and only wrote letters. It couldn't form
hyperlinks. The web page screen was white.
For some reason I had no clothes to wear to work, so I went to work in a
long, black with red flowers ankle length dress. As it turned out the
other two girls came to work in identical black dresses also with red flowers on
them. The three of us looked like triplets. we didn't have anything to
eat, so I was going to run to the store and buy something to eat and decided to
buy hard candy - most likely peppermints. But I only had a $500 bill and
didn't know if they would take that denomination.
The three men who came to work that day, also dressed alike without
consulting each other. The man's voice I heard from out of the closet was
the black singer/judge from American idol - Randy
I was told that the men had nothing to eat for three days, and they had no
food in the house either except eggs, so each one ate only 1 egg per day -
so they ate 3 + 3 + 3 - three eggs per three men per 3 days.. = 9
eggs.
That evening I went home to work for the locksmith. I could hear the
locksmith talking like he was half asleep, but I didn't have a radio to talk to
him. The sound was only incoming. (The locksmith's voice was Nick from the
TV show - The Young and the Restless)
I experimented with my telephone and the incoming number which gave me a busy
signal was 874-9343 and the outgoing number which actually rang in the
other room was 874-9458
1 Cor. 2:1-16
Origen commented on this in his book de Principiis 3:3:3
"A wisdom of this world, and the wisdom of the princes of this world, and
another wisdom of God. False knowledge is stirred up by opposing powers.
introduced into human minds, and humans led astray, while they themselves think
they have discovered wisdom, Opposing powers ensnare and injure humans to
deceive them...Certain powers have been assigned to rule over certain nations,
who are termed for that reason rulers of this world, ... spiritual powers which
bring certain effects.
1 Corinthians 2
Paul's Reliance upon the Spirit
1And when I came
to you, brethren, I did not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom,
proclaiming to you the testimony of God.
2For I
determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him
crucified.
3I was with
you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling,
4and my
message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in
demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
5so that your
faith would not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.
6Yet we do
speak wisdom among those who are mature; a wisdom, however, not of this
age nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away;
7but we speak
God's wisdom in a
)mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages to
our glory;
8the wisdom
which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had
understood it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;
9but just as
it is written,
"THINGS WHICH EYE HAS NOT SEEN AND EAR HAS NOT HEARD,
AND which HAVE NOT ENTERED THE HEART OF MAN,
ALL THAT GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THOSE WHO LOVE HIM."
10 For to us
God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things,
even the depths of God.
11For who
among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which
is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of
God.
12Now we
have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from
God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God,
13which
things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those
taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.
14But a
natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are
foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are
spiritually appraised.
15But he who
is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one.
16For WHO
HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, THAT HE WILL INSTRUCT HIM? But
we have the mind of Christ.
The Number 333 is somewhat of a phenomenon unto itself, there
are so many who have become acutely aware of this Number and Amazingly this
Number in depth of Message is why Thee Trinity Creation has been born into the
World. You see Thee Trinity Creation is the irrefutable Numbers Meaning System,
it is THE SYSTEM(3) who was born of TRUTH(33) back in 1988 in order for the
Person and the World to become more Aware of and to actually live Greater
TRUTH(33) in their lives. The Number 3 is also with reference to TRINITY which
is speaking of the 3 elemental Energies of which we are made up of and of which
we all want Fulfillment in {the Me, your
emotional/physical Self, the Be, your active
success driven Self, the I your Eternal Spiritual
Self}. Unfortunately few experience such Fulfillment in their Lives for
TRUTH(33) is the way and few live the TRUTH(33).
There is certainly not anything to fear in your Number
experience Brandi, that I can assure you of, and when you speak the word
"direction" this is indeed what the Number 333 is offering to you in Life. You
see the type of Number experience that you have had I have termed
Spontaneous Transient Number Awareness™ because it is an
unprompted{spontaneous} Spiritual Communication within a specific time frame
{transient} directed to only you Brandi in that particular way.
You have a very deep desire to know the TRUTH(33) Brandi even
though you are not consciously aware of it, this causes you to elevate your
Energy of Mind to the Realm of the Eternal in which the Communication of Numbers
takes place. Your Numeric Message becomes Revealed to you through the Universal
Language of Numbers originated within Thee Trinity Creation, itself born into
the World from that of the Eternal TRUTH(33).
The Number 33 is a type of Universal Communication which is
offering you some Life Guidance Brandi, its Message is leading you towards
living a purer reflection of the Eternal TRUTH(33) and becoming aware of others
who may be lacking of TRUTH(33). In so doing you will come to experience a
Greater Fulfillment of your TRINITY of Life Energies and the doors to the
Eternal will be wide open for you upon your Earthly close.
Thanks for coming to me for now you know the True Meaning of the
Number 333 and you can begin in full earnest to implement its Message of the
Divine.
Sincerely Spoken,
EuGene
FROM:
http://www.theetrinitycreation.com/YourTruth333.htm
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DREAM #1 - i was looking at a large size book, and had the
fly leaf cover open - the cover and first page were
silver with white circles on it - 12 across and 12 down
= 144 - each circle represented a rule - so it was a
book of rules.
I knew in the dream what type of rules they were, but as
soon as I woke up, I couldn't remember what kind of rules they
were. So as I went back to sleep, I begged spirit to tell me
what the book of rules was about.
DREAM #2 - I was working in an office as a secretary.
I was preparing to leave for the day, when one of the men I
worked for came to my desk and asked me to make copies of the
sheet of parts for each of the engineers working in our
company. After he left, I looked at the back of the
sheet that had been used previously, and on the back was the
name of each engineer and how many of the part they were
requesting. Each engineer requested a different number, and
the number was encircled with a pen line. There were the
same number of engineers listed as there had been rules in the
book in the previous dream. I knew at that point I couldn't
just make a copy of that sheet, I would have to retype it.
As I prepared to retype the front of the sheet and list the
engineers names on the back, I started getting other things
brought to me and my desk was getting piled with all kinds of
things - some of which I had to do at the office, and some I
had to take home.
A messenger then came to my desk with a cardboard box that
was open on top. The box had a series of holes in - like
breathing holes, and inside the box was a dead bush and one
tiny brown bird was in the bush - hopping from branch to
branch. I didn't know who had sent the box with the dead
bush and bird to me, but the messenger said he needed 95 cents
to leave it with me. That meant I had to dig around in my
purse to find the money which I did, and he left. He had
to have exact change also.
Then I looked at the stack of mail that had been delivered
- stuff I had to take home because it was very personal.
It was from my spiritual teacher. I looked at the stack
and wondered if he was leaving us and giving everything he had
to me. At that point, it would be my responsibility to
carry on in his place.
In the pile of what he sent were 12 masks - one for each
month. Each mask was made of white plastic to cover the
face with holes for the eyes, a nose hole to breath through
and a drawn on mouth. The eyebrows, color of mouth, and
hair attached around the top of the mask on each one was
different - and these were used for ceremonies that were to be
held, which he had done by himself in the past.. I knew
this because I had never seen them before.
I still needed to type up the sheet of parts requests, but
I needed to take these secret things and the bird in the bush
home so nobody else would be aware of them, and I felt
torn as to which was more important.
NOTE: To my amazement - the song following - as sung by Inner Circle
in the video - has all the symbols in the dream above. Only vivid dreamers
would understand what a thrill that is, to dream something totally unheard
of and then have it come before your physical eyes the same day it was
dreamed.
BOOK OF RULES - VIDEO MUSIC - REGGAE STYLE - SUNG BY 'INNER
CIRCLE'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVe-vaaV5xk song written
by the Grateful dead:
Book Of Rules
Lyrics: H Johnson, B Llewellyn
Music: H Johnson, B Llewellyn
Played by Bob Weir with Bobby & The Midnites, Kingfish and
Ratdog. See below for
background/history of this song.
Isn't it strange how princesses and kings
Can clown their capers in sawdust rings, just like
Poor people like you and me (note 1)
Will be builders for eternity
Each is given a bag of tools
Shapeless lives and a book of rules (note
2)
Each must make his life as flowing ink (note
3)
Tumbling black on a stepping stone, just like
Poor people like you and me
Will be builders for eternity
Each is given a bag of tools
Shapeless lives and a book of rules
Pow wa pow pow, pow wa pa pa pow pow
Wa pa pa pow pow, wa pow pa pow pow pow
And I say small people like you and me
Will be builders for eternity
Each is given a bag of tools
Shapeless lives and a book of rules
Look where the rain is falling from the sky
(note 4)
I know the sun will be only missing for a while
And I say small people like you and me
Will be builders for eternity
Each is given a bag of tools
Shapeless lives and a book of rules
Pow wa pow pow, pow wa pa pa pow pow
Wa pa pa pow pow, wa pow pa pow pow pow
And I say small people like you and me
Will be builders for eternity
Each is given a bag of tools
Shapeless lives and a book of rules
Pow wa pow pow, pow wa pa pa pow pow
Wa pa pa pow pow, wa pow pa pow pow pow
Pow wa pow pow, pow wa pa pa pow pow
Wa pa pa pow pow, wa pow pa pow pow pow
Pow wa pow pow, pow wa pa pa pow pow
Wa pa pa pow pow, wa pow pa pow pow pow
Pow wa pow pow, pow wa pa pa pow pow
Wa pa pa pow pow, wa pow pa pow pow pow
Notes
(1) Bob Weir now sings "Common
people ..." with Ratdog
(2) With Bobby & The Midnites, Bob Weir
sang "Shapeless lives ..." throughout. But the lyrics
with the album include "Shapeless masks ..." here, with
the rather strange footnote "informed sources differ on the
original lyrics of this song." The original was in fact
"Shapeless mass", which is what Bob Weir now sings with
Ratdog - see below.
(3) this was what Bob Weir sang with Bobby
& The Midnites. It appears to have been based on a mis-hearing
of the original lyrics, and he now sings "Each must make,
'ere life has flown, a stumbling block or a stepping
stone" - see below.
(4) this verse was added by the Heptones
to the original poem by R.L.Sharpe - see
below.
Origins
The original recording was by the Jamaican band 'The Heptones.'
They seem to have recorded a number of different versions -
not all have the verse "Look where the rain is falling from
the sky."
Bob Weir gave the following account of how he came to record
this song in a 1981 interview with David Gans, reprinted in
"Conversations With The Dead":
"That has been one of my favorite reggae cuts for the last
few years. It was sort of a hit in England. I finally found
the record and copped the tune, and recorded it, and then a
few weeks ago--after the record had been pressed up and
everything was happening--a friend of Barlow's found a
compilation of verse, a collection of poems from the turn of
the century to about 1930. There was in it a poem called "A
Bag Of Tools" by R. L. Sharpe. The words to that went
Isn't it strange how princesses and kings
And clowns that caper in sawdust rings
And common people like you and me
Will be builders for eternity
Each is given a bag of tools
A shapeless mass and a book of rules
"The second verse is
Each must make, ere life has flown
A stumbling block or a stepping stone
"So I'm going to sing it like that from now on. That's an
example of what happens when you send a lyric through the
Caribbean and back: you get some transfiguration, shall we
say. It came back this way a little different. I had no idea
there was the original poem. I knew there was something I
liked about that song beyond the lyrics that were there,
though the lyrics I got off the record were kinda neat in
their own right. But someone was singing a song, and these
guys heard it and got the lyrics as best they could, and
then I got the lyrics as best I could off the record. They
wrote a third verse, that one about "Look where the rain is
falling from the sky."
Thanks also to Beth Loring, who independently spotted the
conncetion and alerted me. She found the poem in "Best Loved
Poems of the American People" (selected by Hazel Felleman,
Doubleday & Co., 1936). She lays it out:
A BAG OF TOOLS
Isn't it strange that princes and kings,
And clowns that caper in sawdust rings,
And common people
Like you and me
Are builders for eternity?
Each is given a bag of tools,
A shapless mass,
A book of rules;
And each must make -
Ere life is flown -
A stumbling block
Or a stepping stone.
Oasis included a part of Sharpe's poem in their song "Go
Let It Out" on their album "Standing On The Shoulders Of
Giants":
Is it any wonder why princes and kings
Are clowns that caper in their sawdust rings
And ordinary people that are like you and me
We're the keepers of their destiny
Futher Information
For more information on recordings see Matt Schofield's
Grateful Dead Family Discography
For online chords and TAB see
www.rukind.com
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Blitzer: Here's what she said back
in 2001, and I'll put it up on the
screen: "I would hope that a
wise Latina woman with the
richness of her experiences would
more often than not reach a better
conclusion than a white male who
hasn't lived that...
Acknowledging the pivotal nature
of her ruling, Sotomayor described
how it is "when you see an
outfielder backpedaling and
jumping up to the wall and time
stops for an instant as he jumps
up and you finally figure out
whether it's a home run, a...
) "Although I grew up in very
modest and challenging
circumstances, I consider my life
to be immeasurably rich," she said
after Obama introduced her in the
East Room of the White House. "It
is a daunting feeling to be here.
Eleven years ago,...
"I realized that the judge was the
most important player in that
room," Sotomayor said in a 1998
interview with The Associated
Press.
"We should applaud more frequently
those who transform a lost life,"
Sotomayor said.
"This wealth of
experience--personally and
professionally--has helped me
appreciate the variety of
perspectives that present
themselves in every case that I
hear," she said. "It has helped me
to understand, respect, and
respond to the...
"I strive never to forget the
real-world consequences of my
decisions on individuals,
businesses and government," she
said.
"Our gender and national origins
may and will make a difference in
our judging. Justice [Sandra Day]
O'Connor has often been cited as
saying that a wise old man and
wise old woman will reach the same
conclusion in deciding cases. I am
also not so...
"My heart today is bursting with
gratitude," Sotomayor said from
the White House podium moments
after being introduced by Obama.
"All of the legal defense funds
out there, they're looking for
people with court of appeals
experience, because it is, court
of appeals is where policy is
made," Sotomayor said then.
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Watching the camera settle on the
judge at the end of an episode,
she immediately realized "he
was the most important player in
that room," Sotomayor said in
a 1998 interview with The
Associated Press.
Sotomayor describes herself as
"extraordinarily intense and very
fun-loving."
"I hope that as the Senate and
American people learn more about
me, they will see that I am an
ordinary person who has been
blessed with extraordinary
opportunities and experiences,"
Sotomayor said.
Sotomayor then tried to backtrack,
saying, "I know this is on tape
and I should never say that,
because we don't make law, I know.
Um, okay. I know. I'm not
promoting it, I'm not advocating
it."
"Although I grew up in very
modest and challenging
circumstances, I consider my life
to be immeasurably rich,"
Sotomayor added. "I strive
never to forget the real world
consequences of my decisions on
individuals, businesses and
government."
"The court of appeals is where
policy is made," Sotomayor
said during the conference.
"The Supreme Court has made
clear that the government is free
to favor the anti-abortion
position over the pro-choice
position, and can do so with
public funds," she wrote in
the decision against
abortion-rights groups.
_ Rosie Perez: Close your eyes and
imagine how she would say the
following sentence in her
distinctively heavy Brooklyn
accent: "Thank you, Mr.
President, for the most humbling
honor of my life."
"I have often said that I am
all I am because of her, and I am
only half the woman she is,"
Sotomayor said of Celina
Sotomayor, who worked as a nurse
six days a week to support her
family.
...said growing up in
modest and challenging
circumstance, with a father who
died when she was 9 and a mother
who often had to work two jobs to
support the family, helped her
learn how to "respect and
respond to the concerns and
arguments of...
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"My condition is permanent and
subject to continuing treatment,"
Sotomayor said in a 1997 Senate
questionnaire. "It does not
impair my work or personal life."
"I chose to be a lawyer and
ultimately a judge because I find
endless challenge in the
complexities of the law," she
said. "I firmly believe in the
rule of law as the foundation for
all of our basic rights."
Though skeptical Social Security
officials denied her benefits,
Sotomayor noted that there were
"numerous gaps in the
administrative record"
concerning the "non-English
speaking claimant."
In a short speech after she was
nominated, Sotomayor said, "I
strive never to forget the real
world consequences of my decision
on individuals, businesses, and
government. ...... I firmly
believe in the rule of law as the
foundation of all of our...
Sotomayor said she hopes that
during the Senate confirmation
process the American people
"will see I am an ordinary person
that has been blessed with
extraordinary opportunities and
experiences. Today is one of those
experiences."
Sotomayor said "my heart today
is bursting with gratitude"
and called the nomination the
"most humbling honor of my life."
Sotomayor called the nomination
"the most humbling honour of my
life" and became emotional
when thanking her mother, Celina,
who was in attendance at the White
House.
"My mother has devoted her life
to my brother and me,"
Sotomayor said at the White House
today after President Obama
announced her as his pick for the
next Supreme Court nominee.
"She worked often two jobs to help
support us after Dad died. I...
Taylor has also noted this from a
Sotomayor speech to a Hispanic
group: "I would hope that a
wise Latina woman with the
richness of her experiences would
more often than not reach a better
conclusion (as a judge) than a
white male who hasn't lived...
She added, "And I wonder
whether by ignoring our
differences as women or men of
color we do a disservice both to
the law and society."
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"You are well over your time,
so let's wrap this," Sotomayor
told one federal prosecutor in a
February 2008 oral argument.
Some critics seized on a YouTube
clip in which Sotomayor said at a
legal seminar that the "court
of appeals are where policy is
made" before quickly
explaining her remark at length.
Leading conservatives outside the
Senate, however, did not hold
back, targeting a pair of speeches
in which Sotomayor said appellate
courts are where "policy is
made" and another in which she
said a Latina would often
"reach a better...
"Once I focused on becoming a
lawyer, I never deviated from that
goal," she said.
"It is a daunting feeling to be
here," Sotomayor said after
introducing her mother, Celina,
and other relatives in emotional
terms. "I am an ordinary person
who has been blessed with
extraordinary opportunities and
experiences. Today is one...
"First, as Professor Martha
Minnow has noted, there can never
be a universal definition of
wise," Sotomayor said.
"Second, I would hope that a wise
Latina woman with the richness of
her experiences would more often
than not reach a better...
A spokesman for the Republican
National Committee promised
equitable consideration of
Sotomayor, but couldn't resist a
quick dig, saying, "that's in
stark contrast to how the
Democrats dealt with Judge Roberts
when you look back a couple
ears...
In 2005 at Duke law school,
Sotomayor said that the "court of
appeals is where policy is made."
That different people perceive
these comments differently is
perhaps evidence of Sotomayor's
point ("I rest my case," she might
declare after reading varying
interpretations of her speech
offered by readers with varying
political sympathies.)...
"That person is my mother, Selina
Soto. I have often said that I am
all that I am because of her, and
I am only half the woman that she
is," Sotomayor said.
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In remarks this morning, Sotomayor
called the nomination "the most
humbling honor of my life."
"There is one extraordinary
person who is my life aspiration,"
Sotomayor said in her nomination
acceptance speech at the White
House. "That person is my
mother, Celina Sotomayor."
"Let us not forget that wise
men like Oliver Wendell Holmes and
Justice Cardozo voted on cases
which upheld both sex and race
discrimination in our society,"
she said.
Sotomayor, who graduated from
Princeton University and earned
her law degree from Yale
University, said it would be a
"profound privilege to apply those
principles to the questions and
controversies we face today."
"Our gender and national
origins may and will make a
difference in our judging,"
Sotomayor said, speaking broadly
in 2001 at the University of
California-Berkeley . "Personal
experiences affect the facts that
judges choose to see. : I
simply...
"My heart today is bursting
with gratitude," Sotomayor
said. "I stand on the shoulders
of countless people."
In her remarks Tuesday, Sotomayor
noted that she had grown up in
"very modest and challenging
circumstances," yet considered
herself quite rich in opportunity.
Accepting the nomination at the
White House yesterday Ms Sotomayor
said that "my heart today is
bursting with gratitude",
describing the moment as "the
most humbling honour of my life".
In accepting the nomination at the
White House, Sotomayor paid
tribute to her mother, saying,
"I am all I am because of her, and
I am only half the woman she is."
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"Nearly none of them raved
about her," wrote Rosen.
"They expressed questions about
her temperament, her judicial
craftsmanship, and most of all,
her ability to provide an
intellectual counterweight to the
conservative justices, as well as
a...
"I thank you for all that you
have given me and all that you
continue to give me,"
Sotomayor said.
"I was going to college and I
was going to become an attorney,
and I knew that when I was 10,"
Sotomayor said. "Ten. That's no
jest."
"Our gender and national
origins may and will make a
difference in our judging,"
Sotomayor told the audience at the
University of California-Berkeley
that day in October 2001.
"Personal experiences affect the
facts that judges choose to
see....
Sotomayor, who was then not even
20 years old yet, is quoted thusly
in the April 23, 1974 story:
"Princeton is following a policy
of benign neutrality and is not
making substantive efforts to
change."
When Judge Sotomayor says that
"the court of appeals is where
policy is made," she's hardly
stepping beyond the role set out
for the courts by the nation's
founders.
On the May 27 edition of NBC's
Today, co-host Matt Lauer falsely
asserted that Supreme Court
nominee Sonia Sotomayor said
"in 2005 on tape at Duke
University" that "the court
of appeals is where policy is made
-- not laws are interpreted --...
In comments at the White House
Tuesday, Sotomayor described
herself as a "kid from the
South Bronx" who "strives
never to forget the real-world
consequences of my decisions on
individuals, businesses and the
government."
"Giordano used the victim's
fear of the power he wielded as
mayor to keep them from reporting
the ongoing abuse," Sotomayor
wrote.
"I thought, what a wonderful
occupation to have," Ms.
Sotomayor said. "And I made the
quantum leap: If that was the
prosecutor's job, then the guy who
made the decision to dismiss the
case was the judge. That was what
I was going to be."
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"I am all I am because of her,"
Sotomayor said. "And I am only
half the woman she is."
"Our gender and national
origins may and will make a
difference in our judging,"
Sotomayor told the audience at the
University of California-Berkeley
that day in October 2001.
"Personal experiences affect the
facts that judges choose to
see....
"I stand on the shoulders of
countless people," says
Supreme Court nominee Sonia
Sotomayor.
"I chose to be a lawyer and
ultimately a judge because I find
endless challenge in the
complexities of the law,"
Sotomayor said. "I am an
ordinary person who has been
blessed with extraordinary
opportunities and experiences."
In fact, in that speech -- almost
immediately after the part Will
quoted -- Sotomayor stated that
she "believe[s] that we should
not be so myopic as to believe
that others of different
experiences or backgrounds are
incapable of understanding the...
In comments at the White House
Tuesday, Sotomayor described
herself as a "kid from the
South Bronx" who "strives
never to forget the real-world
consequences of my decisions on
individuals, businesses and the
government."
"Giordano used the victim's
fear of the power he wielded as
mayor to keep them from reporting
the ongoing abuse," Sotomayor
wrote.
Sotomayor, who was then not even
20 years old yet, is quoted thusly
in the April 23, 1974 story:
"Princeton is following a policy
of benign neutrality and is not
making substantive efforts to
change."
"I thought, what a wonderful
occupation to have," Ms.
Sotomayor said. "And I made the
quantum leap: If that was the
prosecutor's job, then the guy who
made the decision to dismiss the
case was the judge. That was what
I was going to be."
Sotomayor added that she would
seek to bring her "wealth of
experiences," from growing up
in a Bronx housing project with a
mother who worked two jobs after
her father was killed to serving
on the appellate bench, to help
guide her in her rulings.
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Republicans have also been
critical of Ms Sotomayor for
saying in 2005 at Duke University
that "the court of appeals is
where policy is made".
"Although the plaintiffs may be
correct that Lake Champlain
ferries are a less obvious
terrorist target than ferries in,
for example, New York City or Los
Angeles ...... the government
...... need not show that every
airport or every ferry terminal...
"I can only imagine the culture
shock my mom must have felt as a
youth, somewhere between childhood
and womanhood, trying to work in
the South with a Spanish-only
grammar school education," the
younger Sotomayor, who knows a
thing or two about...
"We were the only kids I knew
in our housing project to have an
Encyclopedia Britannica,"
Sotomayor said in a 2002 profile
in The Hispanic Outlook in Higher
Education.
Karl Rove likewise weighed in for
good measure, ridiculing Sotomayor
by saying, "I know lots of
stupid people who went to Ivy
League schools."
Sotomayor said she felt
"like a
visitor landing in an alien
country" when she arrived at
Princeton and didn't raise her
hand in class for a year.
"I decided to tell you a story
- the story of my mother's life,"
the younger Sotomayor began that
day. "It is ...... a story of
what hope, hard work, education
and dedication to make a better
life can achieve."
Sotomayor said in 2005 that
"the Court of Appeals is where
policy is made" - a red flag
to conservatives who say judges
should only interpret the law, not
make it.
...cited the nominee's 2001
speech at the University of
California Berkeley in which
Sotomayor said she thought women
of Hispanic descent would reach "a better conclusion" than
white men asked to judge the same
thing.
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She qualifies her statement by
saying, "I'm not promoting it
and I'm not advocating it."
...falsehood came the day
after the false characterization
of Sotomayor's comments by NBC
colleague Chuck Todd, who claimed
that Sotomayor said that "we
legislate from the bench."
Conservatives focused on a speech
where Sotomayor said a "court
of appeals is where policy is
made" and another where she
said that "our gender and
national origins may and will make
a difference in our judging. : I
would hope that a wise...
Supreme Court nominee Sonia
Sotomayor said, "My heart is
bursting with gratitude."
They particularly seized on a clip
from a Duke University forum that
shows Sotomayor saying that
circuit courts are "where
policy is made" and past
statements in which the judge said
that her experiences as a Latina
had affected her decisions.
Sotomayor describes Latinos as one
of America's "economically
deprived populations" which,
like "all minority and women's
groups," are filled with
people "who don't make it in
our society at all."
"First I found that my
vocabulary and writing skills were
poor and I didn't know anything
about the classics," Sotomayor
told Zichy. "So during my
college summers, I retaught myself
basic grammar, learned 10 new
words a day and set up a...
Sotomayor described herself as
"a kid from the Bronx," but
Obama touted her "wisdom
accumulated through an inspiring
life's journey."
He rigorously "tested his
assumptions" on Sotomayor,
says an aide, including asking the
staff to "make the case against
her."
May 26, 2009
Crikey (1
occurrences)
"I don't take this decision
lightly," says Judge Sonia
Sotomayor.
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"It finally happened. Wow. Look
how the Puerto Rican community
came up with someone so
world-class," says Rivera of
Sotomayor, 54, a federal Appeals
Court judge in New York and the
product of a South Bronx housing
project.
The applicable case law, known as
Bivens, did not explicitly apply
to private contractors, but
Sotomayor wrote that she was
"extending Bivens liability to
reach private corporations."
In the same clip of a forum on the
differences between federal
district and appeals courts where
Sotomayor says the "where
policy is made" line, "I'm
not promoting it, I'm not
advocating it."
"I have often said that I am
all I am because of her, and I am
only half the woman she is,"
Sotomayor said, recognizing her
mother and other family members
seated in the audience as the
president announced her
nomination.
The White House's official
background briefing for Judge
Sonia Sotomayor, Barack Obama's
nominee for the Supreme Court,
describes her as a "A Sharp and
Fearless Trial Judge" and
points to her 1995 injunction that
ended the baseball strike.
Sotomayor wrote that the
"physically threatening nature of
the: behavior brings this case
over the line separating merely
offensive or boorish conduct from
actionable sexual harassment."
As for the Youtube clip where, at
a Duke University law seminar on
Feb. 25, 2005, Sotomayor says
"the court of appeals is where
policy is made" a senior
administration official called it
a "poor choice of words."
"Your childhood environment
shapes your perceptions, your
character, your sense of values,"
says Sotomayor, who was appointed
to the 2nd US Circuit Court of
Appeals in October. "To the
extent that I lived in an
environment wrought with...
When people get to know her,
Sotomayor said today, "they
will see that I'm an ordinary
person who's been blessed with
extraordinary opportunities and
experiences" -- and with a
flawed but sturdy heroine from
another time, who got by on brains...
In fact, Sotomayor said that the
"court of appeals is where
policy is made" -- a remark "[e]ven
some conservatives" say is
"only stating the obvious,"
according to Pete Williams.
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In a statement, Mayor Michael
Bloomberg (who couldn't resist
seeming to claim some credit for
the appointment) hailed Sotomayor,
saying, "Her story is a perfect
example of the kind of opportunity
that is available in this city -
and this country -...
In a "diversity lecture" at the
University of California in 2001,
Sotomayor said,"I would hope
that a wise Latina woman with the
richness of her experience would
more often than not reach a better
conclusion than a White male who
hasn't lived that...
"This wealth of experience -
personally and professionally -
has helped me appreciate the
variety of perspectives that
present themselves in every case
that I hear," Sotomayor said.
"You deceived a machine,"
said Judge Sonia Sotomayor,
invoking the image of "Big
Brother" from George Orwell's
novel, 1984. "We are treating a
machine as a person."
In a separate opinion, 2nd Circuit
Judge Sonia Sotomayor wrote that
Armstrong's punishment is so
"extreme" that "the district
court should undertake soon to
revisit whether Armstrong's
imprisonment has slipped into the
impermissible terrain of a...
Sotomayor described her nomination
as the "most humbling honor of
my life" and said she chose to
be a "lawyer and ultimately a
judge because I find endless
challenge in the complexities of
the law."
Sotomayor said her heart was
"bursting with gratitude" at
all who helped her get to
Princeton, then Yale, then up the
legal ladder.
Following the official nomination,
Sotomayor called the selection,
"the most humbling honor" of
her life.
"It is sufficient if the public
official understands that he or
she is expected, as a result of
the payment, to exercise
particular kinds of influence --
on behalf of the payor -- as
specific opportunities arose,"
Sotomayor wrote.
"You can't tell me that any
terrorist is going to make
anything out of the fact you
issued NSLs to AT&T and Verizon,"
said Circuit Judge Sonia
Sotomayor, using a hypothetical
example.
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Roman Catholic
Sonia Sotomayor (born June 25, 1954) is a
federal judge on the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. On May 26,
2009,
President
Barack Obama nominated Judge Sotomayor for appointment to
the
U.S. Supreme Court to replace retiring
Justice
David Souter.[1][2]
Early life and family
Sotomayor was born in
the Bronx, to
Puerto Rican parents. She grew up in a housing project in
the
South Bronx, a short walk from
Yankee Stadium.[3][4]
She was diagnosed with
Type I Diabetes at age eight.[5]
Her father, a tool-and-die worker with a third-grade education,
died the following year.[6]
Her mother, Selena Sotomayor, a nurse, raised Sotomayor and her
younger brother, Juan Sotomayor, who is now a doctor.[7]
Sotomayor has often stated that her mother is her life
inspiration.[8]
In 1976, Sotomayor married while a student at
Princeton University. She and her husband divorced in 1983;
they did not have children.[5]
Education and early legal career
Sotomayor graduated from
Cardinal Spellman High School in the Bronx. She earned her
A.B. from
Princeton University, graduating summa cum laude in
1976.[9]
Sotomayor obtained her
J.D. from
Yale Law School in 1979, where she was an editor of the
Yale Law Journal. Sotomayor then served as an Assistant
District Attorney under prominent
New York County District Attorney
Robert Morgenthau, prosecuting robberies,
assaults,
murders,
police brutality, and
child pornography cases. In 1984, she entered private
practice, making partner at the commercial litigation firm of
Pavia & Harcourt, where she specialized in
intellectual property litigation.[3][6][10]
Federal judicial service
Considered a political
centrist by the American Bar Association Journal[10][11]
and others[5][6][10][11][12][13][14][15]
Sotomayor was nominated on
November 27,
1991,
by President
George H. W. Bush to a seat on the
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
vacated by
John M. Walker, Jr. She became the youngest judge in the
Southern District[15]
and the first Hispanic federal judge anywhere in New York State.[16]
It is the longstanding practice in most states, including New
York, for home-state senators of both parties to play roles in
recommending individuals for federal District Court judgeships.[17]
According to a
blog
post by
conservative activist
Ed Whelan,
Democratic
Senator
Daniel Patrick Moynihan of
New York suggested Sotomayor's name to Bush, who appointed
her in a deal that allowed a conservative judge to be appointed
as well.[18]
Sotomayor was confirmed by the
United States Senate on August 11, 1992, and received her
commission the next day.
On
March 30,
1995,
she issued the preliminary injunction against
Major League Baseball, preventing MLB from unilaterally
implementing a new
Collective Bargaining Agreement and using
replacement players, thus ending the
1994 baseball strike.[4][19]
In another high-profile case, she issued an order allowing the
Wall Street Journal to publish
Vince Foster's suicide note.[20]
Confirmation as Court of Appeals
Judge
On
June 25,
1997,
she was nominated by President
Bill Clinton to the seat she now holds, which was vacated by
J. Daniel Mahoney. Her nomination was approved
overwhelmingly by the
Senate Judiciary Committee, but became "embroiled in the
sometimes tortured judicial politics of the Senate," as some
Republicans said they did not want to consider the nomination
because elevating Sotomayor to the Appeals Court would enhance
her prospects of being appointed to the Supreme Court.[21][22]
An anonymous senator put a
secret hold on her nomination, blocking it for over a year.
Democratic Senator
Patrick Leahy called the length of the hold "disturbing,"
"petty," and "shameful," also noting that at that time, "[o]f
the 10 judicial nominees whose nominations have been pending the
longest before the Senate, eight are women and
racial or
ethnic minority candidates."[23]
In 1998, several Hispanic organizations organized a petition
drive in New York State, generating hundreds of signatures from
New Yorkers to try to convince New York Republican Senator
Al D'Amato to push the Senate leadership to bring
Sotomayor's nomination to a vote.[24]
Her nomination had been pending for over a year when
Majority Leader
Trent Lott scheduled the vote. Many Republicans, including
then-Judiciary
Committee Chairman
Orrin Hatch and six other Republicans who are still in the
Senate today, voted for Sotomayor's confirmation to the Second
Circuit.[21]
With solid Democratic support, and support from about half of
Republicans, Sotomayor was confirmed on
October 2,
1998,
in a 67-29 vote[25],
and she received her commission on October 7.
Awards and honors
Sotomayor has received honorary degrees from
Lehman College,
Princeton University,
Brooklyn Law School,
Pace University School of Law,
Hofstra University,[26]
and
Northeastern University.[27]
She was elected a member of the
American Philosophical Society in 2002.[27]
Other activities
While in private practice, Sotomayor was appointed in 1988 as
one of the founding members of the
New York City Campaign Finance Board, where she served for
four years.[28]
She has also been a member of the Board of Directors of the
State of New York Mortgage Agency (SONYMA), the Puerto Rican
Legal Defense and Education Fund, and the foundation then known
as the Maternity Center Association (now called
Childbirth Connection).[29]
Sotomayor was an Adjunct Professor at
New York University School of Law from 1998 to 2007 and has
been a lecturer-in-law at
Columbia Law School since 1999.[29]
She is a member of the Board of Trustees of
Princeton University and a longtime fan of the
New York Yankees.[19]
Nomination to the United States
Supreme Court
Wikinews has related news:
Obama nominates Sonia Sotomayor to US Supreme Court
Prior to her selection as President
Barack Obama's nominee, Sotomayor had been regarded as a
potential Supreme Court nominee by several presidents, both
Republican and Democratic.[10][30]
She could enjoy bipartisan support.[13][31][32]
In July 2005, a number of Senate Democrats suggested Sotomayor,
among others, to President
George W. Bush as a nominee acceptable to them to fill the
seat of retiring Supreme Court Justice
Sandra Day O'Connor. The seat was eventually filled by Judge
Samuel A. Alito, Jr. of the
Third Circuit.
Since Obama's election, there had been speculation that
Sotomayor could be a leading candidate for the Supreme Court
seat of Justice
David Souter, or for any opening on the Court during Obama's
term.[10][11][12][30][33][34][35]
On April 9, 2009, New York Senators
Charles Schumer and
Kirsten Gillibrand wrote a joint letter to Obama urging him
to appoint Sotomayor, or alternatively Interior Secretary
Ken Salazar, to the Supreme Court if a vacancy should arise
on the Court during his term.[36]
On April 30, 2009
David Souter's retirement plans were leaked to the media,
and Sotomayor received early attention as a possible nominee for
the seat to be vacated in June 2009.[35]
On May 13, 2009, the
Associated Press reported that Obama was considering
Sotomayor, among others, for possible appointment to the United
States Supreme Court.[37]
On May 26, 2009, Obama nominated Sotomayor to the court.[38]
If confirmed, this would make her the Supreme Court's second
Hispanic justice after
Benjamin N. Cardozo.[39]
Several media outlets have falsely reported that she would be
the first.[36][40][41][42]
Previous rulings
1994 baseball strike
On
March 30,
1995,
as a district judge, Sotomayor issued the preliminary injunction
against
Major League Baseball, preventing MLB from unilaterally
implementing a new
Collective Bargaining Agreement and using
replacement players. Her ruling ended the
1994 baseball strike after 232 days, the day before the new
season was scheduled to begin. The Second Circuit upheld
Sotomayor's decision and denied the owners' request to stay the
ruling.[4][19]
Intellectual property
In
New York Times Co. v. Tasini, freelance journalists sued
the
New York Times Company for copyright infringement for the
New York Times' inclusion in an electronic archival
database (LexisNexis)
the work of freelancers it had published. Sotomayor (who was
then a District Judge) ruled that the publisher had the right to
license the freelancer's work. This decision was reversed on
appeal, and the Supreme Court upheld the reversal; two
dissenters (John
Paul Stevens and
Stephen Breyer) took Sotomayor's position.[43]
In
Castle Rock Entertainment, Inc. v. Carol Publishing Group,
Sotomayor ruled that a book of trivia from the television
program
Seinfeld infringed on the copyright of the show's
producer and did not constitute legal
fair use. The
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld
Sotomayor's ruling.
Abortion
In Center for Reproductive Law and Policy v. Bush,[44]
Sotomayor upheld the
Bush administration's implementation of the "Mexico
City Policy" which requires foreign organizations receiving
U.S. funds to "neither perform nor actively promote
abortion as a method of
family planning in other nations". Sotomayor held that the
policy did not constitute a violation of
equal protection, as the government "is free to favor the
anti-abortion position over the
pro-choice position, and can do so with public funds".[45]
First Amendment rights
In
Pappas v. Giuliani,[46]
Sotomayor dissented from her colleagues’ ruling that the
NYPD could terminate an employee from his desk job who sent
racist materials through the mail. Sotomayor argued that the
First Amendment protected speech by the employee “away from
the office, on [his] own time,” even if that speech was
“offensive, hateful, and insulting," and that therefore the
employee's First Amendment claim should have gone to trial
rather than being dismissed on summary judgment.
In
Dow Jones v. Department of Justice,[47]
Sotomayor sided with the Wall Street Journal in its
efforts to obtain and publish a photocopy of the suicide note of
former White House Counsel
Vince Foster. Sotomayor ruled that the public had "a
substantial interest" in viewing the note and enjoined the
Justice Department from blocking its release.
Fourth Amendment rights
In N.G. ex rel. S.G. v. Connecticut,[48]
Sotomayor dissented from her colleagues’ decision to uphold a
series of strip searches of “troubled adolescent girls” in
juvenile detention centers. While Sotomayor agreed that some of
the strip searches at issue in the case were lawful, she would
have held that due to the “the severely intrusive nature of
strip searches,” they should not be allowed “in the absence of
individualized suspicion, of adolescents who have never been
charged with a crime.” She argued that an "individualized
suspicion" rule was more consistent with Second Circuit
precedent than the majority's rule.
In
Leventhal v. Knapek[49],
Sotomayor rejected a
Fourth Amendment challenge by a
Department of Transportation employee whose employer
searched his office computer. She held that “[e]ven though [the
employee] had some expectation of privacy in the contents of his
office computer, the investigatory searches by the DOT did not
violate his Fourth Amendment rights” because here “there were
reasonable grounds for suspecting” the search would reveal
evidence of “work-related misconduct.”
Employment discrimination
Sotomayor was a member of the Second Circuit panel in a
high-profile case that held that the City of New Haven could
throw out its promotional test for firefighters and start over
with a new test, because the City believed the test had a
"disparate impact" on minority firefighters and it might
therefore be subject to a lawsuit from minority firefighters if
it certified the test results. (No black firefighters qualified
for promotion under the test, whereas some had qualified under
tests used in previous years.) Instead, white firefighters sued
the City, claiming that their rights were violated because the
test was thrown out.[50][51]
The case was recently heard by the U.S. Supreme Court as
Ricci v. DeStefano,[52]
and a ruling has not yet been issued.
See also
Barack Obama Supreme Court candidates
Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court nomination
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