Posted by
VBushmills on Tuesday, July 14, 2009 12:11:28 PM
We had already note Judge Sotomayor's problem with temperament, but once on the Court, it will never be heard of again.
Likewise her poor scholarship, the result of affirmative action at the highest levels. It will be interesting to compare her scholarship versus that of the other by-the-bootstraps scholarship of the Court's other person of color, Clarence Thomas. Often panned by leftists for his poor scholarship, most legal intellectuals give Thomas high marks, so it should be interesting.
But suddenly, there is this integrity corner Ms Sotomayor has painted herself into. You see, out of the left side of her mouth, in her public speeches she has lauded her ability to step outside the law and use life experiences, rather exclusive life experiences in making decisions. But today, and leading up to this hearing, out of the right side of her mouth, the fair Dulcinea said the Law, and an unbending impartiality toward it, are the only bases that should go into judicial decision making.
It would only be natural that the Republican inquisitors should try to square the right and left sides of her mouth with the Ricci case, where the Supreme Court today excoriated Ms Sotomayor and her colleagues on the court for failing to even consider the legal and constitutional issues that case brought forward. (The Court overturned her anyway.)
Do your best, Jeff, but understand, integrity is an item the Democrats long ago flush down the toilet.
This is a pass Sotomayor gets without even asking.
Bernard Chumm