President Barack Hussein Obama will announce the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court at 7 am pacific time this morning, according to an Associated Press leak of the embargoed announcement.
Sotomayor is a female hispanic first generation American who grew up in a housing project with one parent, her mother, and who went to Princeton, graduated second in her class, and then went to Yale Law School. That covers an awful lot of bases in the Democrat’s demographic. But Sotomayer has also earned what she has the hard way. God bless America.
Sotomayor is a left liberal who will be a judicial activist. Surveys of her rulings, even by liberal observers, put her in the same ideological groove as Justice Souter (whom she would replace) if not a little more to the left. In one case, the "Ricci" case, she dismissed a discrimination appeal brought by white firefighters without even writing an opinion. She has also made a couple of light-headed public statements. She publicly stated that appellate judges don’t just make law, they make policy. She has also publicly stated that her gender and ethnicity affect her judicial decision-making.
Liberal observers believe that Sotomayor will be confirmed quickly and cite the fact that after some serious interest-group criticism, Chief Justice Roberts was quickly confirmed. It all remains to be seen, but Obama likely has this nomination all sewed up.
May 26th, 2009 at 12:00 am
Her decision in the Firefighter’s case should immediately disqualify her. One of the most egregious cases of race discrimination was approved by Sotomayor. Typical identity politics from the left.
May 26th, 2009 at 12:00 am
Jeff, this nomination was predictable. The American people, not for better but for worse, elected a hard-left President. And the way our Constitution is set up, the President nominates Supreme Court Justices.
My only sorrow is that when Republicans had the White House, we had to pressure George W. Bush into making strong nominations. The Dems win the big prize and their man appoints lefties with no pressure.
May 26th, 2009 at 12:00 am
Yep, sad to say, there’s not much that Republicans can do to slow this nomination down. Just from only cursory views of some of her written and spoken words & opinions scares the heck out of me.