BUMP
blast out to reporters.
I’ll just say simply that she is troubling, disturbing and laughable...
And it has nothing to do with her gender, race, education, or experiences as a latina...
Her legal liberal activism and judicial temperament are an issue to the “real” job that a Supreme Court justice should have...
This nominee is clearly NOT qualified for the Federal bench at ANY level, especially the Supreme Court.
“I would hope that a wise black drug dealer with the richness of his experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male drug dealer who hasn’t lived that life...”
-Sony Sotomaker
“It is no comfort to you for me to say that I am deeply, personally sorry about the sentence that I must impose, because the law requires me to do so. The only statement I can make is this is one more example of an abomination being committed before our sight. You do not deserve this, sir.”
Any judge that feels sorry about enforcing the law should be summarily removed from their post!!! That is their oath! If she wants to change the law she should run for congress and change it.
“Judge Sotomayor said this to a noncitizen drug-dealer, who had just pleaded guilty to drug-dealing: “[I]t is in some respects a great tragedy for our country that instead of permitting you to serve a lesser sentence and rejoin your family at an earlier time I am required by law to give you the statutory minimum. ... [W]e all understand that you were in part a victim of the economic necessities of our society, unfortunately there are laws that I must impose.....
In sentencing Louis Gomez, who also pleaded guilty to dealing cocaine, Sotomayor said, “Louis Gomez, yours is the tragedy of our laws and the greatest one that I know. ... the one our congressmen never thought about and don’t think about. ...
“It is no comfort to you for me to say that I am deeply, personally sorry about the sentence that I must impose, because the law requires me to do so. The only statement I can make is this is one more example of an abomination being committed before our sight. You do not deserve this, sir.”
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OMG.