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

Senate Roll Call for the Sotomayor Confirmation

The following is the roll call by which the Senate confirmed Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the SCOTUS on a 68 to 31 vote:

Democrats Yes:

Akaka (Hawaii); Baucus (Mont.); Bayh (Ind.); Begich (Alaska); Bennet (Colo.); Bingaman (N.M.); Boxer (Calif.); Brown (Ohio); Burris (Ill.); Byrd (W.Va.); Cantwell (Wash.); Cardin (Md.); Carper (Del.); Casey (Pa.); Conrad (N.D.); Dodd (Conn.); Dorgan (N.D.); Durbin (Ill.); Feingold (Wis.); Feinstein (Calif.); Franken (Minn.); Gillibrand (N.Y.); Hagan (N.C.); Harkin (Iowa); Inouye (Hawaii); Johnson (S.D.); Kaufman (Del.); Kerry (Mass.); Klobuchar (Minn.); Kohl (Wis.); Landrieu (La.); Lautenberg (N.J.); Leahy (Vt.); Levin (Mich.); Lincoln (Ark.); McCaskill (Mo.); Menendez (N.J.); Merkley (Ore.); Mikulski (Md.); Murray (Wash.); Nelson (Fla.); Nelson (Neb.); Pryor (Ark.); Reed (R.I.); Reid (Nev.); Rockefeller (W.Va.); Schumer (N.Y.); Shaheen (N.H.); Specter (Pa.); Stabenow (Mich.); Tester (Mont.); Udall (Colo.); Udall (N.M.); Warner (Va.); Webb (Va.); Whitehouse (R.I.); Wyden (Ore.)

Democrats Not Voting: Kennedy (Mass.)

Independents (caucusing with Democrats) Yes: Lieberman (Conn.); Sanders (Vt.)

Republicans No:

Barrasso (Wyo.); Bennett (Utah); Brownback (Kan.); Bunning (Ky.); Burr (N.C.); Chambliss (Ga.); Coburn (Okla.); Cochran (Miss.); Corker (Tenn.); Cornyn (Tex.); Crapo (Idaho); DeMint (S.C.); Ensign (Nev.); Enzi (Wyo.); Grassley (Iowa); Hatch (Utah); Hutchison (Tex.); Inhofe (Okla.); Isakson (Ga.); Johanns (Neb.); Kyl (Ariz.); McCain (Ariz.); McConnell (Ky.); Murkowski (Alaska); Risch (Idaho); Roberts (Kan.); Sessions (Ala.); Shelby (Ala.); Thune (S.D.); Vitter (La.); Wicker (Miss.)

Republicans Yes:

Alexander (Tenn.); Bond (Mo.); Collins (Maine); Graham (S.C.); Gregg (N.H.); Lugar (Ind.); Martinez (Fla.); Snowe (Maine); Voinovich (Ohio)

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=1&vote=00262

The New Haven 20 Get Some Justice

New Haven 20, photo source: NY Post

By Tony Vega

No Justice, No Peace!

The New Haven 20 is a group of mainly white firefighters that were discriminated against because they had the audacity to hope. Their hope was not based in false promise but in merit, you see in 2003 they studied hard, made sacrifices and took a promotional exam and passed. The problem was that their black colleagues did not score high enough to be promoted and the test was thrown out.

The brave firefighters challenged the city of New Haven claiming discrimination. Barack Obama's nominee to the highest court in the land Sonya Sotomayor sided with New Haven's discriminatory action. On Monday, June 29, the Supreme Court overturned Sotomayor's ruling. The SCOTUS decision affirmed that civil rights law could also protect whites from such discrimination.

"Race-based action like the city's [New Haven, Conn.] in this case is impermissible."- Justice Anthony M. Kennedy

Sotomayor and the three judge panel of the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals opined that the white firefighters do not have equal protection under Title V11 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, they did claim sympathy for the firefighters namely one man with dyslexia that overcame serious challenges to pass the exam. Sotomayers' sympathy and $2.25 would get me a ride on a NYC bus.

That decision spurred a dissenting response by judge Jose Cabranes, ironically a Sotomayor mentor; "The opinion [Sotomayer's and the three judge panel ]contains no reference whatsoever to the constitutional claims at the core of this case, and a casual reader of the opinion could be excused for wondering whether a learning disability played at least as much a role in this case as the alleged racial discrimination, This perfunctory disposition rests uneasily with the weighty issues presented by this appeal."

The SCOTUS did take on the weighty issues and overturned Sotomayor's ruling.
While on a Judge’s panel in the early 1990‘s, Sotomayor boasted to be "the perfect affirmative action baby" and admitted that “my test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale.”

Her more famous viewpoint derived from a 2001 speech, which garnered quick attention, and an even quicker excusal from the left. The following are excerpts of that speech:

Sonya Sotomayor declared that the ethnicity and sex of a judge “may and will make a difference in our judging.” This ran counter to both Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg and retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor who opined that a wise old man and a wise old woman would reach the same conclusion when deciding cases.

Sotomayor continues, “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”

In 2005, while addressing student law clerks Sotomayor had this to say, "court of appeals is where policy is made.” She then immediately adds, “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.”

Perhaps, these facts about Sotomayor will make it more clear to the nation as to why she is so attractive to Barack Obama. Clearly, Sotomayor wears the cloak of a judicial activist. Isn't that what the people want on the SCOTUS? No? Then why vote for a man who has the power to make those appointments and demonstrated his entire life not for equal justice but socially engineered justice, be it economical or appointment.

Is Sonya Sotomayor a racist or a race hack? Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of man...or woman. But I can tell you this her track record at the minimum exposes a race activist more along the lines of Al Sharpton than Martin Luther King. Again, that's what the sheep...ahem...the people asked for.

While on the subject of fairness, yes racial equality for all usually musters up fairness in my warped mind, a quick look at the man voted as POTUS will also reveal the prevailing double standard in this nation. A white man would not be able to distance himself from the R label if he spent his adult life in a religious front like TUCC, wallowed in racist hate like pig on stink, and allowed the grand wizard of hate to baptize his children.

Barack Obama has always gravitated toward the fringe elements of society not in an effort to embrace Freedom and democracy, just the opposite, to embrace ideals from Frank the Communist, Ayers the terrorist/anarchist and Wright the racist. There is something about Sonya Sotomayer that Barack Obama likes.

Who would have thought that in America such a man with such indoctrination would rise to such power? That is supposed to be the story of a radical nation, well may be it is.

“A major SCOTUS ruling has reversed persistent, unjust, unfair, and unacceptable racism. The racists have been called out by the Supreme Court jurists. Reverse racism is racism, period.” - Andrew Benjamin, great American

I hope the New Haven 20 relish this decision, justice like this may not last while the radicals are in control.

Sources:

1. nytimes.com
2. politifact.com
3. cnn.com
4. nypost.com