Sotomayor: “Peeking from Behind the Blindfold”

Posted on July 13 2009   by Eric Hogue

Wednesday, I will be the guest host of the Hugh Hewitt Show. The topic of the day should be the confirmation process of Judge Sotomayor to the US Supreme Court.

To be clear; her confirmation is a sure thing.

sotomayor-picturesShe will be placed on the US Supreme Court, as should have Miguel Estrada when President Bush nominated him as a Latino candidate for the DC Circuit Court – one of the highest courts in the land. The difference being, Estrada was attacked, and Sotomayor will be handled gently by the weak Republican leaders in the US Senate Confirmation Hearings.

My biggest concern is simple: “Will a white man before the high bench be forever changed in America’s Constitutional Law?”

More than a white woman, Judge Sotomayor has a direct ideology as it relates to white men and civil, judiciary and political leadership.

As a ”white male”, I believe my legal representation in this country is now seen with a jaundice eye. Lady Liberty is peeking from behind her blindfold, and she is peeking to locate me, a white male.

Taking her cue from President Obama, she is a judge who looks upon judiciary purose as finding empathy in each case. Sotomayor will look ‘past the law and into the case’, trying hard to walk past sympathy and join in a position of standing with the charged – or offended’s – shoe with empathy.

We have never seen our law as a rag of feelings, but rather a parchment of legal standards.

Today, Sotomayor’s hearing ia another effort of liberal hope in change; an adjustment from ‘balls and strikes’ as it relates to constitutional law, to ’perspective and feelings’ in evaluating a ‘real world’ solution through an activists’ ruling.

Sotomayo’s “32-words” of racial commentary stating that her nomination is now due, because she can do a “better job” than some “white male” due to her Latina ethnicity, should be taken to task. If any current politician, radio talk show host, or mid-level manager at a publicly recognized corporate company would be reprimanded – Judge Sotomayor will be confirmed with pride.

You can classify it as you wish: miss-speaking, over generalizing, bias view, prejudiced, empathy or simple racism, it is a statement that has been made over and over again. But it is protected due to the future, not the past.

The real individual on trail today is not Sonia Sotomayor, it is Barack Obama and his future political, and social, influence upon America.

The confirmation hearings this week are touching upon the issue, but refusing to deal with them sternly. The fear is the next nominee; should the conservatives risk losing the public favor, the Hispanic communities support and then the next election cycle – and face the next vacancy with little, or no hope, to stop the shift to a radical liberal US Supreme Court?

In a ‘real world’, Sotomayor’s comments (she has made this statement over six times in different speaking engagments) is called racial in content. But in this week’s confirmation circus it be addressed, but eventually ignored.

The eyes of the Republicans are firmly focused on the future the past performances of the Democrats as it relates to Miguel Estrada, Janice Rogers Brown, and even Sonia Sotomayor herself.

So much for the separation of powers; today the US Supreme Court is squarely under the control of the majority inside of the US Senate and Congress overall.

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One Response to “Sotomayor: “Peeking from Behind the Blindfold””

  1. Rick says:

    Sotomayor enshrines anti-european-american racism in the illegitimate Supreme Court. When America is split and Free Americans get out from under the bootheel of the liberal fascists, the restored US Constitution will NOT have a Supreme Court.

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