As a student of the law, I believe the worst thing a judge can do is to set aside the law and apply their own rules. Judicial activism is an absolute abuse of power
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/us/15judge.html?_r=1
“Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see,” she said.
Yep forget that justice is blind statute. Yep forget get one of the best dissent in US history by Justice Harlan "the law is colorblind." Yep forget what the laws state themselves!
Is this superiority talk? Imagine if a white man said this! Just put in white man in place of Latina women and Latino person for white man. Print that and you will see liberal rage on your hands!
I am sorry, but race, creed, color, religion or national origin should NOT make a difference when interpretting and applying the law. I mean would you want a White judge who came down harder on Latinos? So why is it acceptable for a Latino judge who comes down harder on whites?
Yep the impartiality by the 6th Amendment should be set aside at all costs!
The appellate courts make the law, really? Come on now, no justice should say or YES promote this garbage!
2005 Sotomayor Speech May Raise Conservative Eyebrows | ABA Journal - Law News Now
Yep discrimination is bad, unless its discrimination against Whites, then is A-OK! This is an example of judicial reverse racism.
The Case Against Sotomayor
Her colleague state concerns over her smarts, the about of talking and bullying on the bench (aka presenting her views in the case - aka judicial activism)!
More of the colleague concerns!
Ditto
Sotomayor unjustly ended the baseball strike! Of course a liberal will always side with the Unions, who cares if this union represents all millionaires. The players went on strike! How is it unfair labor practices to use scab players?
It's NOT! Why not rule its unfair for these players to break their contracts and go on strike? This a judicial activist stance to promote unions (and her base), rather than interpretting the laws. This set stare decis against big business in America, in yet another way the liberal philosophy is driving businesses and jobs overseas (ironically they drive a lot of labor over seasons, hurting the people the liberals and Unions saying they are protecting)
1994 Major League Baseball strike - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
the players voted to return to work if a U.S. District Court judge supported the National Labor Relations Board's unfair labor practices complaint against the owners (which was filed on March 27). By a vote of 26-2, owners supported the use of replacement players. The strike ended when federal judge Sonia Sotomayor issued a preliminary injunction against the owners on March 31. On Sunday, April 2, 1995, the day before the season was scheduled to start, the 232 day long strike was finally over. Judge Sotomayor's decision received support from a panel of the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which denied the owners' request to stay the ruling.
I'm sorry, but this woman is highly unfit for the highest court of our land. Obama once against bowed down to his liberal base and picked a highly unqualified Latino woman to take the bench. Look if you are going to hate on Alito and Scalia (which I do) for being Judicial activist and promoting their views over the law (which they do, Scalia only follows his brilliant originalist approach when it fits his scheme, if it doesn't he toss the originalist philosophy out the window), then you must hate on a liberal judicial activist which Sotomayor is! I have no problem with a women, black, Latino etc on the Supreme Court, just silly me I think that person should be the most competent (or at least highly competent), rules based on the law and not her personal feelings or beliefs and does her best to stay impartial!
