And that's not all. Michelle Obama says Sonja "J Lo" Sotomayor can help the housecleaning staff with the restrooms at the White House in her spare time. (:^{)
Posted on 05/26/2009 6:07:54 PM PDT by gusopol3
“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 that life.” — Judge Sonia Sotomayor, in her Judge Mario G. Olmos Law and Cultural Diversity Lecture at the University of California (Berkeley) School of Law in 2001
The above assertion and the rest of a remarkable speech to a Hispanic group by Sotomayor — widely touted as a possible Obama nominee to the Supreme Court — has drawn very little attention in the mainstream media since it was quoted deep inside The New York Times on May 15.
It deserves more scrutiny, because apart from Sotomayor’s Supreme Court prospects, her thinking is representative of the Democratic Party’s powerful identity-politics wing.
Sotomayor also referred to the cardinal duty of judges to be impartial as a mere “aspiration because it denies the fact that we are by our experiences making different choices than others.” And she suggested that “inherent physiological or cultural differences” may help explain why “our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.”
So accustomed have we become to identity politics that it barely causes a ripple when a highly touted Supreme Court candidate, who sits on the federal Appeals Court in New York, has seriously suggested that Latina women like her make better judges than white males.
(Excerpt) Read more at michellemalkin.com ...
Over the last couple of weeks, Obama has stated that he wanted his pick for the highest court in the land to have “empathy” and not someone who’s about some “abstract legal theory.” He wanted someone who is going to be “compassionate” in deciding cases, and implied that his pick should not just stick to the rules handed down to us by the founding fathers. There’s only one problem: that’s what the Supreme Court IS about!
The real problem we face is this: what the far left have not been able to pass legislatively — because the American people simply DO NOT support a far-left agenda — they want to impose on the American people through the courts. THAT is why Obama has nominated Sotomayor: to push the Supreme Court further and further left, to advance that liberal agenda.
As proof, you only have to look at what liberals feel about her: Sotomayor is a favorite of far left special interest groups. In addition to her record as a hard left judicial activist, Sotomayor has been recommended for the Supreme Court by none other than Nan Aron of the VERY liberal “Alliance for Justice,” who stated in a 2004 memo to the Senate Judiciary Committee that Sotomayor had “been through an initial vetting and fit into the criteria that WE believe should be the standard for any Supreme Court justice.”
BUT… the “Alliance for Justice” believes that the Supreme Court should be all about legislating from the bench and imposing that far-left agenda on the American people! And THAT is who Barack Obama has nominated to serve the rest of her life on the U.S. Supreme Court!
Just heard Hatch on Hannity, he sounds as if he’s going to hold her feet to the fire. Maybe he learned something by being booed at the Tea Party.
And that's not all. Michelle Obama says Sonja "J Lo" Sotomayor can help the housecleaning staff with the restrooms at the White House in her spare time. (:^{)
I heard that, too...Hatch said he wouldn’t vote for her if she proved to be an activist. It was the first time a guest talked over Sean and stole the show.
>“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 that life.”
And here I thought Justice was blind & balanced... you know objective and weighing the strong and the weak equally... weighing the rich and the poor equally.
Just because a person is ‘rich’ does not mean he ‘loses’ property rights and “deserves to be stolen from”; he has just as much right to property as does the man with only a backpack full of his belongings, no more & no less.
Do you have a link? (I don’t have cable/satellite/off-air TV.)
She’s a racist, selected by the head racist.
Actually, it’s tribalism. But it does fit right in to the core thinking that BO revealed in his “typical white person” primary process comment that was all but ignored last year.
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