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Barack Obama has made his choice for the next U.S. Supreme Court nominee.
Her name is Sonia Sotomayor, a Hispanic, and she perfectly fits the profile of an Obama-preferred court judge with her extremist activism.
From Gateway Pundit:
Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written. She thinks that judges should dictate policy, and that one's sex, race, and ethnicity ought to affect the decisions one renders from the bench...
She has an extremely high rate of her decisions being reversed, indicating that she is far more of a liberal activist than even the current liberal activist Supreme Court.
Sotomayor was first appointed to the bench by George H.W. Bush and later became Bill Clinton's choice for the federal appeals court. Her views are a sharp departure from that to which we have become accustomed in the Court, asserting that race will play a role in her decisions.
The Volokh Conspiracy reported this, via The New York Times:
In 2001, Sonia Sotomayor, an appeals court judge, gave a speech declaring that the ethnicity and sex of a judge “may and will make a difference in our judging.”
In her speech, Judge Sotomayor questioned the famous notion — often invoked by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her retired Supreme Court colleague, Sandra Day O’Connor — that a wise old man and a wise old woman would reach the same conclusion when deciding cases.
“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 life,” said Judge Sotomayor, who is now considered to be near the top of President Obama’s list of potential Supreme Court nominees...
This has broad, negative implications for the court. For the first time perhaps in all of American history, the primary criterion for choosing a Supreme Court nominee is not the rule of law as embodied in the U.S. Constitution. Rather, Obama has chosen a nominee based upon race and judicial activism.
The scuttlebutt is that Sotomayor is not particularly smart and has not distinguished herself as a particularly competent judge. She is prone to veer off course, assuming an advocacy role rather than applying the principles of the Constitution to the cases that come before her.
Thus, the mantra that Barry's choice 'couldn't be any worse than David Souter' is nothing more than a lesson in the futility of wishful thinking. This nominee deserves to be flatly turned down by both Republicans and Democrats.
But you can bet your last dollar you place on the survival of the Constitution that the Democrat-controlled Congress will fall all over themselves to confirm this terribly unfortunate nomination.
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