Wise Latina Sotomayor Sworn In As First Hispanic Supreme Court Justice

Sonia Sotomayor and Barack Obama/Peter Souza,White House

By Tony Vega

Sonia Sotomayor was sworn-in on Saturday, August 08, 2009 as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. On September 08, she will be "invested as a member of the Court" in a special session of the Supreme Court. The swearing-in on Saturday by Chief Justice John Roberts allows her to prepare as an Associate Justice.

Sonia Sotomayor is the 111th Supreme Court justice, the first Latina and third woman in the 220-year SCOTUS history. Folks, history is on a roll. Forgive me if I don't get all warm and fuzzy here, but making history simply for history's sake does not by default mean it will be positive; remember not all history is good history.

At approximately 1100 hours, Chief Justice Roberts administered two oaths to Sonia Sotomayor. The first oath was a more private one and standard for all federal employees, who swear to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”

The second oath is the judicial oath and took place in the court’s East Conference Room, where cameras were allowed to record the event. That oath under the Constitution and laws of the United States is where Sotomayor swore to “administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me.”

All Freedom loving Patriots will hope that Justice Sotomayor will adhere to her oaths and has grown from the folly of her judicial activism and rhetoric displaying a degree of racial animus.

In addition to the controversy of her suggestion that a wise Latina would make better decisions than a white man, Sotomayor's more famous, or rather infamous, decision as an appellate court justice was her ruling against The New Haven 20.

In 2005, while addressing student law clerks Sotomayor revealed her judicial activism by saying, "court of appeals is where policy is made." She then immediately added, "And I know — I know this is on tape, and I should never say that because we don't make law. I know. O.K. I know. I'm not promoting it. I'm not advocating it. I'm — you know."

Brace yourselves; Barack Obama may conceivably make three or more Supreme Court appointments during his first term. If Obama's brief history is any indication, we know he has a penchant for the radical.

Sonia Sotomayor replaced the retiring David Souter. In addition to Souter, Justices Ginsberg, 76, and Stevens, 89 may retire.

This year, making history is chic right long with American Idol and fawning over morally corrupt celebrities. Politics is certainly not an area where one will find moral fortitude, however, it is disappointing when a SCOTUS appointment is confirmed via political expedience over what is best for the nation.

Republican Senators facing reelection know that their constituents will expect them to honor their base and the principle of country first. All 12 Republican Senators facing reelection voted against Sotomayor.

With the Democrats in power, Sotomayor was easily confirmed by sixty-eight Senators to thirty-one. 57:58 Democrats voted yes, while Sen. Kennedy suffering from cancer did not vote. Sen. Sanders of Vermont and Sen. Lieberman of Connecticut, both Independents that caucus with the Democrats voted for confirmation.

The following are the nine Republicans that voted to confirm:
Sen. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.)
Sen. Christopher Bond (Mo.)
Sen. Susan Collins (Maine)
Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.)
Sen. Judd Gregg (N.H.)
Sen. Richard Lugar (Ind.)
Sen. Mel Martinez (Fla.)
Sen. Olympia Snowe (Maine)
Sen. George Voinovich (Ohio)

For the complete Senate roll call visit here.

Resources:

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08/06/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5220908.shtml

http://ninthjustice.nationaljournal.com/

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090808/ap_on_go_su_co/us_supreme_court_sotomayor

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/us/politics/09sotomayor.html?_r=3

Aren't the American People Sick Of It?

Sent in by that Great American, AGB

IMAGINE! This guy is teaching, I mean, PROPAGANDIZING, your children...and you and the American taxpayer is paying for it all. Geez!

Everything is RACE to these characters. All Roads Lead to Rome...er, I mean...to RACE.

And I ask of whites and Orientals and others...why are YOU so afraid to speak about RACE when it is not you who raised the race issue in the first place and you are not guilty of bias?

Why are you not DIRECTLY confronting the racialists who are using the system AGAINST you as they pick your pockets? It is not you, who are the racists. THEY ARE THE RACISTS! Wake up!

Why do I say it is THEY, and not YOU, who are the racists?

BECAUSE THEY RAISE THE RACE ISSUE EACH AND EVERY TIME! That is why. They are the ones who want to manipulate and rip off the system BECAUSE of racial beefs, mostly imagined, most of which do not even exist. That does not mean that all beefs do not exist. Most however do not.

Turns out Gates is just another idiot (literally) and con man. An idiot because he and his partisans actually believe we cannot see through his act. He, like his partisan defenders, and his president, have provably BAD JUDGMENT based on false assumptions. This scam is just one among many.

And if you read the police reports you'll find that likely Gates PROVOKED the whole thing. In other words, he is like the rest of the racial arsonists...a seething HATER...SCAMMING the system to ENRICH themselves...to get publicity...and predeterminedly to SUE the municipality to MAKE money off YOU!...the taxpayer....for himself.

Why one might ask, are these people like this, why do they behave the way they do? I say, a huge inferiority complex is at the core of it all and the ENTITLEMENT mentality. They are entitled to the wealth of the system...and to YOUR money.

Affirmative action got him into Yale. Not competitive test scores or scholarship. He scored LOWER than the fellow/lady who got rejected.

Of course, Gates got in at the cost of keeping a legitimate and intelligent white or Oriental student out. Gates got to where he is BECAUSE of racial politics...without which he'd be a nobody. He is a phony, a phake, and a phraud!



Note the next video. Savage has a higher education than Gates, two PhDs...and not a result of affirmative action...and he speaks directly and honestly (unlike that worm Gates)...listen to the whole tape and decide for yourself and read the police report below: