Larry Tribe: Sotomayor: 'not nearly as smart as she thinks she is' and a 'bully'

Now I stand behind no man in my love of a good ten year old, unsubstantiated 'pubic hair on a coke can' porn story but I think the perspective stated by Prof Larry Tribe of Harvard in a letter to President Obama on then Judge Sotomayor's fitness to serve on the Supreme Court would have been far more valuable to the "Greatest Deliberative Body in the World".  Read the whole thing here.

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 on issues like those involved in the voting rights case argued last week and the Title VII case of the New Haven firefighters argued earlier, issues on which Kennedy will probably vote with Roberts despite Souter’s influence but on which I don’t regard Kennedy as a lost cause for the decade or so that he is likely to remain on the Court.

But of course Ms. Sotomayor was on the plantación so no whipping or shackles were required.