This is why "life, liberty and pursuit of happiness" should be cornerstones for our inalienable and God-given freedoms. And Life includes protection of life at the beginning -- and pro-life should, therefore, not be a state prerogative, but a federally protected right.
The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals examined in Maloney v. Cuomo a claim by a New York attorney that a New York law prohibiting possession of “nunchucks,” a martial arts weapon, violated his 2nd Amendment rights. Sotomayor and the 2nd Circuit affirmed a lower court’s decision that the 2nd Amendment applies only to federal laws and not to states or municipalities.
Sotomayor flunks legal logic 101: If the States can pass laws which nullify the Constitution (including the Amendments) then we would have anarchy. The States could pass laws, for example, which prohibit freedom of speech, assembly, petition, and the press. The entire Constitution would be a joke, if it isn’t already. A book to read is “The Dirty Dozen” about 12 Supreme Court cases by Levy and Mellor.
Sotomayor is not qualified to be a Supreme Court judge.