Obama Picks Sotomayor For Supreme Court: Worst Possible Choice

Will Malven
5/26/2009

If you had any doubts as to how bad President Obama could be, his latest move is dead solid proof.

Sonia Sotomayor is the worst sort of activist judge. She has been caught on film making the appalling statement that the "court of appeals is where policy is made." She then compounds her guilt by acknowledging that she made a mistake in admitting that belief on film and thus by inference that she knows her assertion is wrong, but doesn’t care. This alone is enough to disqualify her for the post to which she has been nominated.

Here is the clip in which she makes that statement:

This film clip clearly shows that, not only does she have contempt for the intent of our Founding Fathers and the Constitution they wrote, but she finds her contempt for the Constitution to be humorous. Such arrogance is breathtaking.

Anyone holding such a radical belief is unsuited to hold such a powerful position in our government. After all, even the President can be voted out after four years; the position of Supreme Court Justice is a lifetime appointment.

The position of Supreme Court Justice is supposed to be an interpretive position, not a legislative position. A Supreme Court Justice is like an umpire in a baseball game; either a pitch is in, in which case it is a strike or the pitch is out and it's a ball. The umpire is not supposed to care who the batter is or who the pitcher is; he is not there to make up rules. He is supposed to call the pitches according to the rules as they are written.

The Founding Fathers set up a government "of the people, by the people and for the people" by placing all law-making powers in the hands of our democratically elected Legislative Branch.

The Judiciary Branch's sole responsibility with respect to our laws is to determine whether or not those laws passed by Congress comport with the Constitution as it was written. Sotomayor and her ilk would expand that mandate and their authority into the realm of law-making thus taking that power out of the hands of the people and placing it in the hands of an unelected oligarchy.

That President Obama would appoint such a person is no surprise; Liberals like him know they cannot get their social agenda through the legislature so they want to bypass Constitutional safeguards and have a court that will make law through judicial fiat (proclamation).

That there are many justices so inclined is no surprise either, it is just surprising to encounter one so cavalier in her attitude about doing so and so dismissive of even her own admission that doing so is anti-constitutional.

It may be that Obama plans to use Sotomayor as a stalking horse for his real choice to be announced after she has taken the heat in a bitter Senate showdown. This would enable him to get his genuine nominee passed with far less opposition than they would normally encounter. It would not be the first time that a President has made such a cynical move.

Whether or not this is the case, no one with such a high degree of contempt for our Constitution can be allowed to sit on the Supreme Court of the United States. Sonia Sotomayor must be made a non-starter by Republican Senators and no effort (up to and including a filibuster) can be spared in blocking her or any other similarly inclined nominee.

Republican Senators must be willing to "fade the heat" regardless of how uncomfortable Democrats and their cheerleaders in the media attempt to make it.
Sotomayor poses a direct threat to the very foundation of our nation and our form of government.

“Stop Sotomayor at any and all costs!” This must be the rallying cry of any American who values his Constitutional rights, freedoms, and liberties.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

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