[Travis McGee]

"When the Chief Justice read me the oath and came to the words ‘support the Constitution of the United States' I felt like saying: ‘Yes, but it's the Constitution as I understand it, flexible enough to meet any new problem of democracy -- not the kind of Constitution your Court has raised up as a barrier to progress and democracy.'"

Rat icon and superhero FDR. Not much has changed with progressive Rats.

[Mouton]

Maybe some one should educate that lesbo this is a REPUBLIC, not a democracy.

[dirtboy]

I felt like saying: ‘Yes, but it's the Constitution as I understand it, flexible enough to meet any new problem of democracy -- not the kind of Constitution your Court has raised up as a barrier to progress and democracy.'"

I guess it's beyond her to acknowledge that the Constitution was drafted specifically to rein in the excesses of democracy - and, coming from a minority, that is a stunning viewpoint. What Sotomayor wants is a minority to have the kind of judicial power over the majority that the majority would have over the minority in an unchecked democracy. In simpler terms, she's a rank hypocrite.

She just apatly confirmed the stated fears of her critics, even as she condemned those fears as baseless.

In other words, a classic modern progressive.