The Smoking Gun On Sotomayor: She Doesn’t Believe In Objective Review Of The Law
And that comes straight from her lips, as Tom Bowden points out at the Ayn Rand Center blog:
In previous posts, I’ve discussed the oft-quoted public speech in which she rhapsodized about “how wonderful and magical it is to have a Latina soul.” In that speech, which she later authorized to be reprinted as a law review article, Sotomayor publicly declared that judicial impartiality is just a pipe dream, that judges can’t be objective because “[p]ersonal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see,” and as a result “‘there is no objective stance but only a series of perspectives.’”
This speech not just a smoking gun—it’s an atomic blast meant to obliterate the rule of law. Any senator of either party who cannot see the implications of Sotomayor’s views is intellectually unequipped to perform the kind of searching review the Founders intended when they required advice and consent of the Senate for Supreme Court nominations.
Sotomayor, frankly, isn’t qualified to be a judge. Yes, she’s got the legal degrees. Yes she has actually been sitting on the federal bench for some time now. But her judicial philosophy bears little in common with what our founders intended a judge to be.
Sadly, she’ll probably be confirmed anyway. Because in this day and age, a Supreme Court judge is just another sort of legislator.
