RSSWashington Post Attempts Supreme Rehab Of Sotomayor
J.J. Jackson | June 8, 2009
The Washington Post’s Jerry Markon is trying to pull off a supreme rehabilitation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor in a fruitless attempt to make her appear to be a reasoned judge. His article is of course a predictable attempt to resuscitate Sotomayor and silence critics.
Three years ago, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor ruled against a minister who had sued his church for age discrimination, and accused her Republican colleagues of judicial activism when they allowed the case to go forward.
Of course he doesn’t cite the exact law that was in question so we would have to see that first before deciding who exactly would be the “judicial activist” here. If the law were to say, perhaps, that age discrimination is a valid claim to be adjudicated then it would be Sotomayor that is the actual activist. For example, there is the The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 which covers such things. Was this the law under which the case was brought? And if so how exactly did Sotomayor “rationalize” ignoring it?
Not that I agree that such should be a law mind you. I am simply pointing out that whether right or wrong, there are such laws on the books and Judges would be bound to follow them.
Regardless, Markon continues on:
Three months later, Sotomayor supported black and Hispanic prisoners seeking the right to vote, despite age-old laws barring felons from voting.
Ok, so here we see Sotomayor overriding the rights of the states to remove rights from criminals. This is power clearly allowed under the 14th amendment (something she apparently regularly ignores based on her rulings on the second amendment) which says that with due process of law rights, life, liberty and property may be withheld from criminals.
Markon’s piece rambles on never actually proving the point he sets out to prove. He just merely tosses it out there hoping that liberals and liberal-lites (moderates) will accept his conclusions based upon the headline alone without actually seriously looking at what he claims. And judging by the way Americans are these days, he might just get away with getting enough people to support a racist, sexist activist judge who has little regard for the Constitution when it gets in her way.
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