Obama will nominate liberal Sotomayor to SCOTUS

Call me old fashioned, but I believe that judges at any level should follow and interpret the law, but Appellate Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor says courts make policy.



Numerous media sources are reporting that Sotomayor will be nominated to replace retiring Justice David Souter on the US Supreme Court.

Karl Rove said earlier this month that Sotomayor "could be even more liberal than (retiring Justice David) Souter was."



It gets worse...Justice is not blind with Sotomayor.

"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." Sotomayor also said that the increasing diversity in federal courts "will have an effect on the development of the law and on judging." She said that being a woman or a minority can affect a judge's perspective because of "experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences."

But we shouldn't be surprised. In explaining the type of Supreme Court justice we wanted to appoint, Barack Obama mentioned empathy as a qualification.

Horrible pick.

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