On the day she was named as President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, I took issue with some of Sonia Sotomayor’s statements and decisions. I knew then I wouldn’t be the only one either. However, a great analysis of Sotomayor is presented by Ilya Shapiro, a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute regarding Sotomayor as a nominee to the bench.
Of particular interest is how Shapiro spends little time really going into quotes that have many folks, your’s truly included, so outraged. Instead, he focuses on many factors that contribute to paint a picture of Sotomayor as an OK jurist, but hardly worthy of a spot on the most important judicial post in the nation.
I encourage you all to read Shapiro’s assessment, and my own, and you’ll start to see a picture of Sonia Sotomayor that the White House doesn’t want you to see. Her votes on abortion and in the New Haven case paint a picture not of a liberal, but of a statist who seems to believe that government is the answer. Definitely not the type of person I want on the Supreme Court.
Abortion? Really? I’ll have to read the Cato piece again because I see no mention of abortion.
The only decision of hers that even remotely touches on abortion involves the Mexico City policy i.e.can you ban foreign aid to organizations who fund abortions. Her position was that the legislature decides appropriations therefore they can decided what to spend on and what not to spend on therefore there was no equal protection violation in the ban. To me that’s pretty close to the libertarian sweet spot. Hardly statist (another buzzword I am really, really not fond of).
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You’re right. I went back and looked and I got that confused with some other traffic I had picked up along the way. I’m not going to edit it out, only because I said it and it was wrong and I’m not going to hide it.
Thanks for keeping me honest on this.
Hey no problem Tom! And it’s never personal. Just always about keeping the conversation going. You guys are doing a great job and making me proud to be from SW Georgia.
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Never thought of it as personal myself. Thanks for the good words. We sure do try