Sotomayor: I can't help it.

(Sketch from Plognark.)

The big issue the republicans have with Sotomayor is all concentrated in that one little statement she made years ago, that she hoped a “wise Latina” might reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.

This means, if you believe the odious rhetoric that is coming from the right, that she will apply her "empathy" instead of the law in her decisions.

I've read that speech and I don't come to the conclusion. The idea of judges being replaceable little robots is so absurd that it makes me think the Republicans are making their outrage up. They need to show opposition and she's convenient. Gee. Her political leanings are liberal. Cry me a river-- she's Obama's nominee, isn't she?

What she said was that different experiences make different people. What the Republicans are implying is that she'll rule differently than someone who isn't her. As if judges never conflict on their opinions. What they're afraid of is that she won't rule in lockstep with the conservative activist judges they managed to pack the court with over the last twenty years. You know who I mean. The Gang of Four: Roberts, Thomas, Scalia and Ailito.

Oh, yes. I forgot. It's not an activist court when conservatives do it.
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