Here's to Sonia! May she be the wisest latina in all the land!
I'm not sure she's my justice-she really has not distinguished herself as an activist judge and her position on choice and gay marriage are unclear and potentially more conservative than I would like. But, all that said, there is no question she is supremely qualified for the high court-definitely more qualified than Clarence Thomas was when he was nominated or Souter when he was nominated.
Those Republicans who questioned her integrity and her qualifications (oops, actually few people challenged her qualifications because, weel, she's qualified) are hypocrites who held her to a higher standard (because of her color and gender) than the white men that were appointed (Alito and Roberts) under the last regime.
“Judge Sotomayor’s career and judicial record demonstrates that she has always followed the rule of law,” Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said on Thursday. “Attempts at distorting that record by suggesting that her ethnicity or heritage will be the driving force in her decisions as a justice of the Supreme Court are demeaning to women and all communities of color.”
Senate Approves Sotomayor to Supreme Court - NYTimes.com
Those Republicans who questioned her integrity and her qualifications (oops, actually few people challenged her qualifications because, weel, she's qualified) are hypocrites who held her to a higher standard (because of her color and gender) than the white men that were appointed (Alito and Roberts) under the last regime.
“Judge Sotomayor’s career and judicial record demonstrates that she has always followed the rule of law,” Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said on Thursday. “Attempts at distorting that record by suggesting that her ethnicity or heritage will be the driving force in her decisions as a justice of the Supreme Court are demeaning to women and all communities of color.”
Senate Approves Sotomayor to Supreme Court - NYTimes.com