Sonia So-So Sotomayor

Thankfully, Congress has finished the Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court dog and pony show without revealing whether she’s the dog or the pony. Interviewing nominees for the Supreme Court has almost become irrelevant given the extensive Q&A coaching in providing vague and evasive answers that precedes their appearance.

The Obama administration suppressed information from Sotomayor’s 12 years serving on the litigation committee of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, an organization advocating reverse discrimination in several cases filed against the government in New York. Obama couldn’t conceal her recently overturned decision as an Appeals Court Judge in which she ruled to support reverse discrimination against a group of white (and one Hispanic) firefighters in New Haven, CT. Therefore, the one thing we can know for sure is that she is a consistent advocate of reverse discrimination.

These decisions are even more troubling given her 2001 speech in which she said that she hoped “a wise Latina” would usually rule better than a white male. Eight years later, and after White House coaching, So-So says her words were “poorly chosen.”

Personally, I think she was poorly chosen, not only by Barack Obama for the Supreme Court, but by George H.W. Bush, who nominated her for her first judgeship. As much as I liked George H.W. Bush, he did a terrible job selecting judges, since he’s the one who also nominated the retiring David Souter to the Supreme Court. Souter has been a consistent liberal thorn on the Supreme Court and his absence will be greatly appreciated.

Unfortunately, we’ll just be trading one liberal Supreme Court Justice for another when Sotomayor takes over for Souter. She’s almost guaranteed to be confirmed, given the Democratic majority that’s currently sucking our nation into the toilet. Sen. Patrick Leahy began the proceedings by warning Republicans to, “Let no one demean this extraordinary woman.”

So-So gets points for being female and for being Puerto Rican. The Republicans can’t push too hard against her confirmation because they can’t afford to alienate the Hispanic millions living legally and illegally in this country.

Since I don’t have to pander to voters or Sen. Leahy, I’ll tell you that it’s deeply disturbing when a judge shows a preference for justice that isn’t blind. So-So will get the job, but she’ll never get the respect until she puts her prejudice and her heritage aside when rendering judgments.