Sotomayor review…

There are a number of things to concern  us about Obama’s nominee.  For starters, the New Haven firefighters case  which is now before the Supreme Court  is there because she and her panel  tried to bury the firefighters’ claims and to prevent en banc and Supreme Court review of them.    Judge Cabranes,  a fellow Clinton appointee,  is the one who called her on it,  and passed it up for review.   Considering that she has a  60% reversal rate,  it’s likely she’ll be reversed again.

Of special interest to me is her view that the Supreme Court ruled wrongly in the District of Columbia gun case.    She doesn’t believe the Second Amendment confers a right to be armed to any citizen and simply ignores the Supreme’s reasoning.   That’s  at odds with her  statement from a 1997 confirmation hearing:   “I don’t believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance.   It says what it says.   We should do honor to it.”

I imagine Obama would appoint  himself if he thought he could get away with it.    Sotomayor’s worldview is like his own.    They are both convinced they are far smarter than anyone else they deal with.  They both find the Constitution an inconvenient obstacle to organizing  society according to their vision.    They both claim to favor the rule of law,  while ignoring it whenever it suits them to do so.    Like Obama,   Sotomayor believes she is  simply better than  anyone else,  that her particular life story confirms this and should shield her from criticism   — a peculiar form of self-deception  liberals often engage in.

They believe the purpose of the judiciary should be redistributive and social justice,  and to achieve  those aims,  they feel it their right — indeed, their duty — to act accordingly.   As a result,  they have both violated every oath of office they have ever taken on a near daily basis.

She doesn’t believe that costs should be considered in environmental matters,  which matches Obama’s thinking.   She also wasn’t Bush 41’s  pick,  as explained at the top of the second page of this column from Politico.    The White House has posted her Princeton yearbook photo, complete with a quote from Norman Thomas,  the former Socialist-party presidential candidate.    Did they not know who Thomas was,  or just consider him mainstream?