Meet The Sotomayors

To allow this individual, with her personal agenda and two faced hypocritical views to serve on the highest court in the nation is purely intolerable. If the senate confirms her to the supreme court, it will be another brick removed from the strength of this nation. Another brick of the many Obama has already loosened or removed.

." Sotomayor has recalled that her writing was "stilted and overly complicated," her "grammar and vocabulary skills weak."
Which is political speak for getting admitted under Affirmative Action even though she was not the best qualified applicant, and then "she filed a complaint with the federal Department of Health, Education, and Welfare accusing Princeton of "an institutional pattern of discrimination" against Puerto Ricans and Chicanos". Which means that she wasn't satisfied that she was given things she didn't deserve, but she wanted other chicanos to get special treatment too.
It sounds like she's a highly partisan activist, so no doubt she'll be confirmed by a highly partisan, activist Senate.

Sotomayor is just another fine example of "you scratch mine, I scratch yours" that runs amuck in politics.. Im sure there is better qualified people out there that doesnt have the prejudice attitudes as she obviously has.. Just because she sits there trying to hold a fake smile, blinking 500 times a second, scribling circles and underlining names of ppl shed like to get back at once she is nominated to the Supreme court, doesnt make her worthy to be there... Obama seems to be putting questionable ppl in offices that dont need to be there.. Ofcourse hiding them behind the word "csars" doesnt make him look like in he is in this for the benefit of the American ppl.... But hey who am I?.. Just an American citizen that didnt vote for him.. Im the one laughing at all who did vote for him ruin your lives.. Like Russia, North Korea, and Iran I am just laughing at him, while he is trying to make believe he is one outstanding president... Enjoy his term as president.. As I am sure all the dictators will enjoy a prosperous 4 years knowing we have an inexperienced, sit and do nothing president that YOU all voted for... ENJOY! Cause I know I am. Im enjoying all the starry eyed Obamaians lights start to dim.. Every time he opens his mouth about how his new health care will save the world... I enjoy watching your cheers of YES WE CAN change to OH NO HE DITANT.... As he CHANGES all the promises the swore hed stick to... Did he bring home the troops?.. Oh he pulled the troops from Iraq like he promised, but sent them to Afghanistan(guess he forgot the mention we were still at war).. Yup Im glad he is president... Im glad you all voted him in based on his qualifications and not because MTV or Oprah told you to.. I love the warm and fuzzy feeling I get when he interrupts various t.v. shows about every night to brain wash us into thinking all he does is for the good of the nation..(like trying to pass a health care bill that nobody even knows anything about, esp. his own party) But pass it because he said to.. Thats all capital hill needs is Obamas " I said to do it" reasoning to pass a bill.. Yup Im glad OBAMA CAN.. I mean YES WE CAN...

If you watch TV Land, you can see Sonia Sotomayor when she used to play "Roseanne." I wonder if John Goodman will come along with her to the Supreme Court?

Why refer only to 'conservative critics' (without true attribution) who say that she will reveal her carefully hidden radicalism once she is on the Court? She has been hiding this radicalism for over 30 years; she is really good at it.

Ethan30: ??????.wasn't "a story" that got the Obama's and Sotomayor admitted to Ivy League schools, it was race and ethnicity respectively (most ???people of color??? given a break in college admissions are from the middle class, professional ranks). Advocates of this sort of social engineering believe that such policies result in ???historically underrepresented minorities??? attaining positions of national prominence, thus inspiring other similarly situated groups to achieve to the same. As Thomas Sowell has reminded us, ???there are no solutions, only trade-offs,??? the consequence here being the undermining of the equal protection clause and the upset of the rest of us who weren???t given preferential treatment.

Republicans are worried that Sotomayor will be biased in favor of minorities. They prefer another white judge who will be biased in favor of white interests. An activist judge is a judge who opposes the normal and usual advantage that white businessmen could always expect in the courts. Nothing could be worse for their cause than a justice who was actually just. Watch the good old boys try to rattle Sotomayor during the hearings and remember that the real issue is that she is wrong for the job because she is not white enough.

my opinion is heres a woman who denied a lawsuit brought by white firefighters in which was clearly a case of discriminatoin. and im assuming it can all be tied to affirmative action. all these people who took the test were already firefighters and should know the material in and out but the only ones who scored were whites (doesnt supprise me) so how did these otwa's get the job in the first place, i doubt they outscored anyone but because of AA they had to be hired over the white people who did score high because of thier skin color that in itself is disciminatory. i am willing to bet if they scrapped the test after latinos scored high and didnt get thier deseved promotions then she would have ruled for the latinos. i also really doubt that any of her experience of being a puertorican woman can be a better judge than a white male (which is a discriminatory statement) its absurd she would even make that comment. but at the same time it goes to show she will sympathize w/people of her own race because they all have it so hard. like alot of americans dont. hell i myself have applied for many jobs but because uneducated colored america always screams racism they get the job. hell i score a 95 and a spanish or black person scores a 80 they get the job, so tell me who is doing the discriminating. you go to school you learn a trade and you score high but you cant have the job because your white and we need to hire uneducated lower scoring minorities (again discimination at its best) in any case i do not believe she should be appointed to a higher seat. and from what i see is if she is appointed then again the gov. ignors its own people just to satisfy another race. a hell i guess im getting used to it. i call it *** on in your own backyard. and the politicians are doing the shiting.

Say YES toi the END of white male power elite rule ! Say YES to diversity ! America is finally living up to its promiseand bright in telligent WOMEN, LATINOS, and BLACKS are taking their rightful place at the table of democracy. Gone are the days of white male doiminance and we shall all be the better off for it ! My sincere thanks toi the American People, Barack Obama, and Nancy Pelosi ! Now lets take back what is rightfully ours !

Senator Feinstein said it like it is: Republicans shout about what they call the "judicial activism" of the other side. Democratic Presidents have tended to be overly cautious, even mildly timid. Republican Presidents have acted boldly to install justices with extreme right wing views. They have used the euphemism of "strict constructionists" to secure their wishes. Thus have they installed unabashed rightists such as Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Alito. Democratic appointees to the bench are mildly left of center. The court cannot become a citadel for ordinary citizens, especially minorities (gays, lesbians, ethnics, women, religious groups, atheists, etc) can ultimately retreat if they ignore issues of equity and fundamental justice. That is what is wrong with the current composition of the Supreme Court! Right wing judges routinely trumpet a hard vision of ideological finality. Yet, the law is not mathematics with very predictable results. Rightists, unlike Democrats, deny that they put their own particular gloss, cultural predispositions and philosophic orientation in their interpretation of the constitution. Hamiton was wrong when he asserted in No. 78 of The Federalist that the judiciary has "neither force nor will, but merely judgement." Frankfurther reminded us that "It is the Constitution we are interpreting, not an insurance clause in small type," that "it is inadmissibly a narrow conception to "disregard the gloss which life has written upon them."" Therefore, empathy and life experiences matter. Since the Constitution is not exhaustive, it leaves judges with lots of room to do what they want!

Dr. Sam

She suggested that judicial opinions should reflect the gender and ethnic backgrounds of the judges who write them, because that was her ticket to the Ivy League as well as any other job and milestone in her career.

The problem is that we don't promote the best and the brightest but rather look at great "stories" and "backgrounds". So since her story was what got her those opportunities, she thinks that's the right way to judge a case- not by the metirs, but rather by the personal statement that can get you to an Ivy League school without having the academic achievements to back it up.

Obama supports her, because he, too, got into Columbia despite being a mediocre student at best throughout his 12 years of being a student.
It was his "story" that got him to Columbia, and then to Harvard Law School.

So what, If Ms. Sotomayor is Puerto Rican. That doesn't give her the right to be a racist. I'm a white male and proud of it. White males made it possible for Ms. Sotomayor to be in the position she is today. White anglo saxon males whether you like it or not AQua09 founded America the land of the free and equal and it was not founded by a hispanic woman. If Ms. Sotomayor was a white anglo saxon male that didn't speak spanish was running for office in Puerto Rico, I'd say she wouldn't get any votes at all. She is not superior to me nor do I believe she is smarter than me, and since she has a biased opinion and believes hispanics should recieve preferential treatment, she doesn't belong on the supreme court. Furthermore she is from Puerto Rico as you pointed out which brings me to another point, she's not even a citizen of the USA and should not be a judge in America at all.