Pasadena Politics

Sonia Sotomayor was an expected pick by Obama for the Supreme Court Nomination.   Also expected was the fact that she is a liberal.   What is not expected is that she is a sexist racist.   That last statement of expectation depends on your perspective of Liberals of course.  However, the assertion that she is a sexist and a racist is based on statements she and Obama have made.   Namely this one and this one.

Sotomayor has also stated, though she tried to obscure the statement after recognizing that she was being recorded, that the Judiciary is activist – that they form policy as opposed to strictly interpreting the laws.   This happens to espouse violating the separation of powers.   The Legislature creates the laws.  The Executive executes the laws.  The Judiciary interprets the laws.   Without checks and balance of power by the separations of those powers you have tyranny.

Sotomayor is not a good choice in any respect by the fact that she cannot be an impartial Judge.   The fact that she views the Judiciary as a policy making device shows her contempt for the law she is supposed to be interpreting and the Constitution by which she is obligated to uphold.  No judge is supposed to interpret the law based off of their race or sex – the law which might have been written from that perspective is not logically interpreted by that same perspective.  That is: logic and reason are not based on race or sex, the interpretation of law is irrespective of race or sex.   It is neutral in all respects which is why impartiality is required of Judges.   A good judge is one who is impartial, not one who says “my sex and race lend me this perspective and though the law says this, I judge this way.”

That she believes sex and race effect logic is as erroneous as saying sex and race effect math calculations.  No, anyone who supports her nomination is Now, on the other hand, if she can hold to “I don’t believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it” and hold to being as unbiased as she possibly can be, then she will have done what is expected of any Judge.   If that is the case, I will eat my words.  But I have serious doubts given the statements by Obama that “her perspective” will impact the decisions of the Supreme Court – let alone her own statements which left doubt concerning her commitment to being unbiased.