http://bit.ly/3nSfzM - - - Obama's top spokesman, Robert Gibbs, told reporters about Sotomayor: "I think she'd say that her word choice in 2001 was poor."
Gibbs, however, said he did not hear that from Sotomayor directly. He said he learned it from people who had talked to her, and he did not identify who those people were. Sotomayor herself has made no public statements since her nomination became official Tuesday and was not reachable for comment. A veteran federal judge, Sotomayor is poised to be the first Hispanic, and the third woman, to serve on the Supreme Court. She said in 2001: "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." The remark was in the context her saying that "our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging." Sotomayor's comments came in a lecture, titled "A Latina Judge's Voice," that she gave in 2001 at the law school of the University of California, Berkeley. After three days of suggesting that reporters and critics should not dwell on one sentence from a speech, the White House had a different message Friday. "If you look in the entire sweep of the essay that she wrote, what's clear is that she was simply saying that her life experiences will give her information about the struggles and hardships that people are going through, that will make her a good judge," Obama said in the broadcast interview. ... She also said, for example: "Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see." "My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas in which I am unfamiliar," she said. "I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage." - - - Her life experience, and the life experience of any judge on the court, has absolutely JACK SHIT to do with any one case at hand. The judge's job in a constitutional republic is to apply the law to the facts of the case. Period. They don't pick and choose which facts to include or not based on their cultural "heritage". Now, in the eerie Franz Kafka novel into which he seems intent to remake America, Sotomayor is indeed a perfect judge. The question is what kind of America we want -- one run by unelected elites who interpret everything through their own eyes and decide on a whim what industry or business they will save based on a preference for this or that union (that's what Obama is creating), or one in which justice is applied impartially and government is limited to certain well defined roles. You can't have both. - Bob _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
