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Jun 05, 2009 at 02:25 PM
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Washington - U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor hit a casino jackpot for more than $8,000 last year.
Financial disclosure forms released Friday show the judge listed $8,283 in jackpot game winning on November 23. The forms do not say where or how Sotomayor won the money. It was listed under non-investment income.
The White House said she won the money in a Florida casino while gambling with her mother.
Sotomayor must fill out disclosure forms yearly as a judge on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York.
U.S. Appeals judges made $179,500 in 2008. Sotomayor's forms show she made an extra $25,830 as a lecturer at Columbia University Law School in New York City.
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Jun 05, 2009 at 04:07 PM Anonymous Says:
But my humble opinion is that she is a Role model! She had as a kid diabetes, and she made it through the highest level.
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Jun 05, 2009 at 04:05 PM Gefilte Fish Says:
There you go! we have a gambling judge nominated to the highest court. Now I know what they meant that she has real life experiance...
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Jun 05, 2009 at 03:57 PM Anonymous Says:
Good for her.
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Jun 05, 2009 at 04:21 PM Anonymous Says:
Someone who gambles is pasul leides and vaday to be a judge?
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Jun 05, 2009 at 05:21 PM barry Says:
All of you calm down.
She went with her Mom to a Casino, got lucky and reported it.
Nothing wrong with that!
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Jun 05, 2009 at 06:38 PM ShatzMatz Says:
Does she decide her cases by the roll of the dice too? Anyone involved in litigation, either criminal or civel, will tell you that all litigation is basically a crap shoot. I doesn't matter if you are right or wrong, innocent or guilty. The outcome is always about 50/50.
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Jun 05, 2009 at 06:36 PM Anonymous Says:
She had no choose the casnio issues a 1090 for large winings.. My bigger concern is that she is still poor after so much sucess (sound like her life is mismanaged)
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Jun 05, 2009 at 07:03 PM Milhouse Says:
“ Someone who gambles is pasul leides and vaday to be a judge? ”
Only a professional gambler is posul. There's nothing wrong with a little recreational gambling, once in a while. There are some worrying things in her record, but this isn't one of them.
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Jun 06, 2009 at 08:53 PM merkin Says:
If she is so wise why does she gamble which chazal described as the activity of deluded idiots.?
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Jun 05, 2009 at 07:51 PM Anonymous Says:
I agree with Millhouse that she may have some baggage but having won some money at bingo, lottery or whatever, is not an issue. Every once in a while Millhouse, you make such common sense statements, it helps me forget the 90 percent of the other stuff you say that is so crazy.
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Jun 06, 2009 at 09:25 PM authenticSatmar Says:
Obama chose a candidate that would be difficult for anyone to publicly oppose. Her record is troublesome, her life is in shambles, and is far from the quality expected from a supreme court justice.
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Jun 06, 2009 at 10:56 PM Anonymous Says:
“ I agree with Millhouse that she may have some baggage but having won some money at bingo, lottery or whatever, is not an issue. Every once in a while Millhouse, you make such common sense statements, it helps me forget the 90 percent of the other stuff you say that is so crazy. ”
Btw, milhous is not Right even in this issue! Because you find in gamora two reasons why a gambler is not kosher of life evidence: #1 because he/she is a "low life" of not being occupied with a normal living; #2 because he is a criminal he stoles money of others. So milhous is not right with #2.
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Jun 07, 2009 at 12:07 AM ShatzMatz Says:
Does she decide her cases by the roll of the dice too? Anyone involved in litigation, either criminal or civel, will tell you that all litigation is basically a crap shoot. I doesn't matter if you are right or wrong, innocent or guilty. The outcome is always about 50/50.
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Jun 07, 2009 at 07:09 AM mottel Says:
obama's praising her life experience which is supposed to help her be more sympathetic to the underdog. (that, btw is absolutely forbidden to a judge, who must rule according to law, not while biased with sympathy).she's not married, has no children...what life experience? she hasn't even lived!
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Jun 07, 2009 at 08:53 AM Milhouse Says:
“ Btw, milhous is not Right even in this issue! Because you find in gamora two reasons why a gambler is not kosher of life evidence: #1 because he/she is a "low life" of not being occupied with a normal living; #2 because he is a criminal he stoles money of others. So milhous is not right with #2. ”
She's a criminal? She "stoles money of others"? Whose money, exactly, did she steal? The casino's?