http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/46226627.html By: Examiner Editorial
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05/27/09 5:50 AM EDT
Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s personal story is a compelling and inspiring one. Rising from a Bronx housing project to Princeton and Yale, and then to the federal bench, she embodies the American Dream, with talent and hard work trumping humble beginnings. So it’s particularly disappointing that she comes to President Obama’s nomination for the Supreme Court with so warped a view of the nation that provided her with such boundless opportunities.
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DeStafano, for example, Sotomayor decided that the city government of New Haven, Connecticut, can discriminate in the promotion of firefighters on the basis of race in order to achieve a politically correct result. Such ethnocentric reasoning flatly contradicts President Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign promise to move America beyond race-based divisiveness in public policy. And there is simply no way to square Sotomayor’s view with the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of due process and equal protection of the law for all citizens, regardless of their ethnicity.
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Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-UT, who has spent decades on the Senate Judiciary Committee reviewing the qualifications of federal judicial nominees from presidents of both parties, now describes Sotomayor as “extremely liberal.†Many of her appellate rulings have been overturned by the Supreme Court, and her misguided New Haven decision may soon meet the same fate.
No empathy for white guys. Probably none for Asians, either.
Leveling the playing field means whacking down the good until
all samey-samey. Batteries not included.
