Sotomayor Has Record That Doesn't Inspire

IBD Editorials ^ | July 1, 2009 | THOMAS SOWELL

[Kaslin]

For the fourth time in six cases, the Supreme Court of the United States has reversed a decision for which Judge Sonia Sotomayor voted on the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals.

If this nominee were a white male, would this not raise questions about whether he should be elevated to a court that has found his previous decisions wrong two-thirds of the time when those decisions have been reviewed?

Is no one supposed to ask questions about qualifications, simply because this nominee is Hispanic and a woman? Have we become that mindless?

Qualifications are not simply a question of how long you have been doing something, but how well you have done it. Judge Sotomayor has certainly been on the federal bench long enough, but is being reversed four out of six times a sign of a job well done?

Would longevity be equated with qualifications anywhere else?

Some sergeants have been in the army longer than some generals but nobody thinks that is a reason to make those sergeants generals.

Performance matters. And Judge Sotomayor's performance provides no reason for putting her on the Supreme Court.

Although the case of the Connecticut firefighters is the latest and best-known of Judge Sotomayor's reversals by the Supreme Court, an even more revealing case was Didden v. Village of Port Chester, in which the Supreme Court openly rebuked the unanimous three-judge panel that included Judge Sotomayor for "an evident denial of the most elementary forms of procedural due process."

[Kaslin]

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[OneWingedShark]

What about “feeling good about the law” is it that is more ‘compassionate’ [or just] than enforcing the law?

[bareford101]

she is a self-professed racist...... what more can she say? It's like obamanation telling people that he was going to redistribute money.... he did alright... took it from the working people and gave it to the slugs.

[lilylangtree]

She’s unqualified. When did SCOTUS operate under the affirmative action plan?

[TNCMAXQ]

She’ll end up being an embarrassment. But it won’t matter as she will have all that influence as a justice. What a shame. Republicans could use left wing judges as a campaign issue but I don’t think that’s ever been done. Meanwhile Dems castigate conservative appointees as extreme and “out of the mainstream.” They use judicial appointments as political fodder all the time.

As far as being out of the mainstream goes, no one is more so than Sotomayor. After the court’s ruling on quotas the other day, local reaction here is almost unanimously in favor of the white firefighters who were discriminated against. Yet conservatives are supposed to be the ones who are out of touch??

[sionnsar]

Sotomayor Has Record That Doesn't Inspire

Do.. You.. Think...?

I've met Latinas FAR wiser than this poser.

[pallis]

Sotomayor is a dimwit. She gives Affirmative Action and Hispanics a bad name. Too bad they don’t require an IQ test for Supreme Court nominees. Harriet Miers puts Sotomayor to shame.

[Apparatchik]

It's not her judicial record that matters; it's whether she has a personal story that is inspiring. Vapid celebrity is the new coin of the realm and the media is in charge of the banks.

[Seven plus One]

When did SCOTUS operate under the affirmative action plan?

As soon as she is confirmed, not until then. Installing such flagrant lightweights (obama, Franken, Sotomayor) in high government posts might cause people to lose respect for the institutions themselves. Or is that the idea?

[Liz]

......she is a self-professed racist...... like obamanation redistributing income from the working classes......gave it to the slugs.

She has the same disdain for America, it’s citizenry and its culture as Obama. She sees herself as The Enforcer for racial minorities seeking to exert raw power over the rest of us---to marginalize the majority-----something one finds in failed Third World satraps.

The fact that she and her crowd do not understand a democracy is based on three co-equal branches of government is grounds for showing her the road.

Sotomayor's the "Latino Grievances" nominee......every ruling from the bench will be ironclad to redress every latino grievance since time immemorial. Americans will be paying with our freedoms......for those Frito Bandito commercials.

She is a member of the racial-thought police----La Raza. They are demanding "respect and fairness." That's latino for "shut up----close your eyes, ears and mouths........or else we'll get physical."

Being Hispanic is not a criteria for seating a Supreme Court Justice. More is being made about her race than her actual judicial record.

[Liz]

SOWELL SUMS IT UP For the fourth time in six cases, the USSC has reversed a Sotomayor decision......... an even more revealing case was Didden v. Village of Port Chester, in which the USSC openly rebuked the unanimous three-judge panel that included Judge Sotomayor for "an evident denial of the most elementary forms of procedural due process."

Is no one supposed to ask questions about qualifications, simply because this nominee is Hispanic and a woman? Have we become that mindless?