Why of course, I had empathy for those cases…the law just gets in the way of my feelings….

Do you consider blacks to be racially inferior therefor requiring a judge to step in to ensure their advancement since they are unable to compete on a level playing field?

It would never get an answer but I think the implication might stick.

And for the trolls, I personally DO NOT believe blacks to be racially inferior- I have worked FOR many talented black men and women in the military who got to their rank based on personal acheivement, not quotas.

What’s your (rationale) for saying that policy is made in the court of appeals?

Anyone who says something like that is supremely unqualified to sit on the bench of any court in the United States.

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2. Does your reading of the Constitution support the death penalty?

She wouldn’t know. I doubt she places any value on the Constitution, assuming she’s even read it.

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Nothing to see here … Keep moving …

Yeah, ok.

Whatever.

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“It is counter-productive; we inflict death on the offender to manifest our opposition to his inflicting death on another.”

This is the type of argument that drives me crazy. Taken to its extreme, it would prevent us from punishing criminals at all. For example, suppose some lowlife kidnaps a kid and holds him for ransom. Then, after the ransom is paid, he kills the kid anyway. Now let’s say that the perp is eventually caught, tried, and found guilty. What punishment would Judge Sotomayor find acceptable to impose on this murdering scum?

We already know that the death penalty is off the table because it would be “counter-productive” to kill a killer to show that killing is wrong. But, by the same logic, you can’t put him in prison because that would be holding him against his will. In other words, you’d be kidnapping a kidnapper to show that kidnapping is wrong. And you couldn’t fine him, either, because that would be taking money from a thief to show that stealing is wrong.

I guess the only punishment left would be to have him beaten. But that would be considered torture. Besides, if he beat the kid before he murdered him, that punishment would be out, too, because we have all learned from the progressives who run our schools that it’s counter-productive to hit someone to show that hitting is wrong.

The only thing left that is not “cruel or unusual” is to turn him loose and hope he’s learned his lesson. That would only be cruel to his next victim. Obama wants judges who have empathy for criminals. But to protect society because you have empathy for future victims is counter-productive.

It’s time to grow up and find judges who know the difference between “crime” and “punishment”. The difference is “due process”. A fine is not stealing, confinement in prison is not kidnapping, and capital punishment is not the same as murder if due process is followed by the court. It concerns me that a long-time judge like Sonia Sotomayor doesn’t seem to understand that.

Will you be citing your Latina heritage in your decisions on the court?

Is Latina a race widely recognized by demographers?

Why do you think it is necessary to mention your culture when giving speeches to college students and in some cases citing your “Race” as Latina 41 times in a 10-15 minute speech?

Wendy Long of the Judicial Confirmation Network has more questions for the White House:

* Are you concerned that would have granted the claims of convicted felons in prison that their right to vote had been violated on account of their race or color, just because they couldn’t vote since they were in prison? (Hayden v. Pataki case)

* Are you concerned that The Supreme Court reversed Judge Sotomayor’s decision creating a federal claim so that prisoners can sue private prison contractors for alleged violations of their constitutional rights? (Malesko Bivens case)

* Are you concerned that she would have hampered law enforcement with her view that the state creates an “express racial classification” when the police look for a black male suspect when a 70 year-old woman who has been attacked describes her assailant as a young black male?

* Are you concerned that she signed a memo saying there is not a single rationale that would support capital punishment, and only evidence against it?

* Are you concerned that she does a disservice to public servants in the ranks of the fire and police departments when she engages in activism, both on and off the bench, to press for racial preferences and quotas to deny jobs and promotions to qualified white police officers and fire fighters?

I can’t imagine any reason why the White House would have any concern with these positions since they share them. The people who need to answer these questions are the American people, and they need to let 100 members of the Senate what those opinions are before it’s to late!

According to Brooks, Sotomayor had bad luck in being born in 1954, because that meant that she went to college and law school in the 1970’s…

I had the bad luck to be born in 1947, so even though that meant I attended college and grad school in the 60′s and 70′s when socialism on the college scene was gaining full acceptance, I had the good luck to be born with a brain, which allowed me to reject that BS and become convinced at an early age that NYT columnists are uniformly unwise.

Please explain your apparent hostility to FOIA requests by jounalists, given your record.

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/06/09/sotomayor-and-freedom-of-information-act-the-odd-couple/