Posted by
Bert Chapman on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 10:52:52 AM
President Obama has nominated Sonia Sotomayor to be Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. Citing her purportedly compelling personal story and her supposedly superior recognition of the "real life concerns" of Americans, the messianic complex President now seeks to infiltrate the nation's highest court with one of his leftist acolytes. The Obamites believe that appointing the first Hispanic to the Supreme Court will reap political gains among this demographic group without bothering to consider that most Hispanics do not adhere to the liberal social and legal values Sotomayor espouses and would seek to codify into constitutional law.
Where to begin with the reasons for opposing this nomination. Personal stories, no matter how compelling, are not sufficient reason for supporting a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. Sotomayor is a member of the totalitarian leftist victimization school of thought which would seek to do anything necessary to entrench racial preferences for non whites into constitutional law and public policy while branding as racists those daring to disagree with them. This is most vividly demonstrated by her siding with New Haven, CT's racially discriminatory practices denying promotion to meritorious white firefighters in Ricci v. DeStefano because no minority applicants were able to pass the justifiably rigorous firefighter promotion requirements in this community. Her imbecilic comments that she has special insights into legal philosophy because she is a Latina should be shot down as infantile racism! Her videotaped comments at a Duke University Law School forum, in which she declared that judges make policy, is sufficient evidence that she does not have a proper judicial philosophy of interpreting the law let alone an intellectually valid understanding of the judiciary's role in our constitutional government as envisioned by the founders which thunderously demonstrates that she is unworthy of being appointed to the Supreme Court.
Her appointment will result in opinions that seek to expand abortion rights, trample on traditional marriage by expanding it to include same sex marriage, place acute burdens on businesses through expanded and unnecessary regulations with the emerging area of climate change likely to be a particulary burdensome demonstration of this, give expanded constitutional legal rights to Islamist terrorists who seek to kill multiple numbers of Americans and impose Sharia law on our country, and sacrifice U.S. constitutional sovereignty by deferring to the opinions of foreign and international laws which are produced by individuals and organizations not elected by or accountable to U.S. taxpayers. She is already on record in Didden v. Village of Port Chester as favoring aggressive governmental eminent domain claims and has the bizarre and historically inaccurate viewpoint that the 2nd amendment does not limit state or local government gun control laws.
Sotomayor is an intellectual lightweight who has had numerous opinions reversed. Even the liberal magazine New Republic has expressed serious reservations about her quality, qualifications, and judicial temperment. Conservatives should wager a vigourous opposition to her nomination by intellectually and rhetorically roughing her up as much as possible during the confirmation process. It's HIGH TIME liberal administrations and Senators get a dose of the medicine they gave conservative Supreme Court nominees like Robert Bork and Justice Thomas when they experienced tumultuous confirmations in 1987 and 1991. Sotomayor is entitled to no special treatment because of her ethnicity or life's story and she needs to be told in the bluntest language possible that playing the ethnic or racial cards in her confirmation hearings won't work this time. We also need to explain to Hispanics that she does not hold the conservative social and family values they cherish and that her opinions and rulings will be injurious to traditional moral values and to the ability for Hispanics and all other Americans to economically prosper and fully participate in the American dream.