At first I didn’t think this subject would relate to this blog, though the more I look at it, the more it does. This woman Sonia Sotomayor, who is being considered to be appointed to the highest courts in the land, for what would be the rest of her life, is not the type of judge we need.
We have heard a few things about her, like belonging to an all women club, saying her experiences as a hispanic give her better understanding than a gringo, and ruling on a reverse discrimination case that the Supreme court overturned. Now the Washington Post has started dissecting all her ruling, and the pattern that emerges is frighting to you regarding your ability to defend thyself.
You don’t need a supercomputer to see that this women is a liberal reverse racist.
The White House has portrayed Sotomayor as a tough-on-crime moderate who favors the “judicial restraint” often sought by Republicans, while conservatives call her a liberal activist whose decisions are influenced by ideology and her Latina heritage.
“She looks like a classic Democrat,” Songer said. “I don’t think it’s fair to classify her as tough on crime. I would use the term ‘moderately liberal,’ not ‘moderate.’ But she certainly seems to be in the mainstream of Democratic judges.”
I remember Obama saying that when she is appointed, we are finally going to have justice in the courts.
OBAMA: This woman is brilliant. She is qualified. I want her confirmed. I want her walking up those marble steps and starting to provide some justice.
The article goes on to describe a couple rulings.
In one case, Sotomayor and seven mostly Democratic colleagues voted to set free a convicted murderer who did not contest his guilt but had been tried on what the court called the wrong murder charge. In another, she joined an opinion that cited flawed jury instructions in throwing out a man’s conviction for enticing someone he believed was a 13-year-old girl into sex.
And when she threw out a life prison term for a convicted heroin dealer, ordering that he be resentenced, Sotomayor wrote that judges should not show “slavish adherence” to the “literal terms” of then-mandatory sentencing guidelines when their language is flawed. The view echoed her criticism of the guidelines from the bench that became an issue in her 1997 confirmation hearings.
At those hearings, Republicans criticized Sotomayor for apologizing to a defendant for a mandatory minimum sentence she imposed and for calling the sentence an “abomination.” She told senators that the apology expressed her frustration over a feature in the sentencing rules that Congress later changed, conceded she should not have used the word “abomination” and expressed general support for the guidelines.
So she likes to let murders and drug dealers walk the streets. Are you ready when you meet one? Do you have your Spitfire keychain pepper spray in your hands, ready to use at a moments notice?
Do you have your TASER C2 in your pocket or purse, ready to stop the biggest, baddest murderer that Sotomayor let go?
What about walking in NY and running into that drug dealer, who now needs his fix, and robs you. Will you be ready to take them down and take back your town, or will you be a victim?
Defend Thyself…
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