Sonia Behind the Bench

Campus Report ^ | July 21, 2009 | Alana Goodman

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Sonia Behind the Bench

by: Alana Goodman, July 21, 2009

Since President Obama announced his nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, the media has hailed the Puerto Rican federal court of appeals judge as a role-model for women and Hispanics. News coverage by the major networks has mainly focused on Sotomayor’s “inspiring” rags-to-riches upbringing and her “politically moderate” judicial record.

Noticeably downplayed in the barrage of media is coverage of Sotomayor’s ties to ultra left-wing groups and speeches she has made expressing a radical perspective on jurisprudence that is not consistent with the views of most Americans.

While introducing his Supreme Court pick, Obama spent almost twice as much time highlighting Sotomayor’s allegedly hard-knock past as a Bronx-born child of immigrants as he did detailing her judicial record.

“But as impressive and meaningful as Judge Sotomayor’s sterling credentials in the law is her own extraordinary journey. Born in the South Bronx, she was raised in a housing project not far from Yankee Stadium…she’s faced down barriers, overcome the odds, lived out the American Dream that brought her parents here so long ago,” said the President.

The mainstream media took their cue from this theme, gushing over Sotomayor’s upbringing in a housing project, with the New York Times calling her journey an “up-by-the bootstraps tale” and “compelling life story.”....

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What happens to her if Berry is exposed as a non American? I hope we can erase all his screw ups when he goes down.

[muawiyah]

If Sonja wanted to prove she'd left all the Leftwingtard stuff behind she'd join a little streetcorner church where they sing Praise.

Otherwise the rest of us just have to believe she's another New Yorker with an attitude against the rest of the country, including a cold detachment from the suffering of real people.