Hatch, R-Utah, said just before the firefighters’ testimony that the Ricci case was “the one thing that really bothered me” about Sotomayor’s record.Come on Orin, that's all that bothered you?
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..she is likely to say that her judicial record shows no hint of bias or activism and no evidence of unfairness or tilting the scales in favor of minority groups...........
That’s a laugh. She could not be more biased when it comes to judging her own. Read on.
By Ann Coulter
HUMAN EVENTS-—Vol. 53 Issue 39, p 11,
17 OCTOBER 1997
PROBABLE CAUSE FOR REJECTING JUDGE SOTOMAYOR (Sotomayor was then on the Clinton’s fast track to the Supreme Court)
SOTOMAYOR’S ACTUAL WORDS FROM THE BENCH, SENTENCING ADMITTED DRUG DEALER Louis Gomez (a noncitizen), who pleaded guilty to dealing cocaine:
“[I]t is in some respects a great tragedy for our country that instead of permitting you to serve a lesser sentence and rejoin your family at an earlier time I am required by law to give you the statutory minimum. ...
[W]e all understand that you were in part a victim of the economic necessities of our society, unfortunately there are laws that I must impose.
“Louis Gomez, yours is the tragedy of our laws and the greatest one that I know. ... the one our congressmen never thought about and don’t think about. ...
“It is no comfort to you for me to say that I am deeply, personally sorry about the sentence that I must impose, because the law requires me to do so. The only statement I can make is this is one more example of an abomination being committed before our sight. You do not deserve this, sir.”
Nelson Castellanos was arrested in NYC outside his Harlem apartment, charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine. He was holding his keys and a white shopping bag containing about $10,000, mostly in $1 and $20 bills.
That evening, pursuant to a warrant, DEA personnel searched his apartment and found over 1,200 grams of cocaine, six live rounds of ammunition, a .44 caliber revolver and incriminating notebooks.
All this evidence was thrown out by District Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor on the grounds that the DEA agents had not provided the magistrate with probable cause to search Castellanos’s apartment.
1 posted on Saturday, July 11, 2009 6:36:47 PM by Liz
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