I don’t even have to go very far on this one. Is Sonia Sotomayor a great jurist? Nope apparently not. From the various reports trickling in from colleagues, it seems that Ms. Sotomayor leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to her abilities. I have serious questions about a woman that intimates on video that courts, “set policy”. Courts are NOT supposed to set policy, they are supposed to interpret the law. Further, it seems that Ms. Sotomayor thinks that her experiences as a latina female make her somehow more qualified to render judgment than say, a white male on matters of race and sex. Really? How so? If a judge is supposed to work within the context of the LAW, what personal experience is it that she wishes to impart where it concerns her application of said law? It seems that the law will be trumped by Ms. Sotomayor’s life experience. Oh how nice for all of us that she is going to bring her bias to the bench.
Congratulations Ms. Sotomayor, not for being a learned scholar of law, but for being female and latina… that seems the most pressing of criterias in Mr. Obama’s selection of you as a Supreme Court Justice. How does it feel to have subjected yourself to years of education and to then find that what qualified you was obtained at your birth? Somebody with a wee bit of self respect might be offended, but hey, you said it yourself, you’re only half the woman your mother is.
