Muzzled

Judge Sonia Sotomayor, the normally voluble, sassy and "wise" Supreme Court nominee who feels entitled to make up her own laws (and who has had her wrist slapped for it numerous times, once in an 8-0 high court decision authored by Justice Stevens, no less), was struck dumb during her visit to Capitol Hill yesterday and declined to answer questions, despite being paraded around during an entire day of media pressers and photo-ops:

"Judge Sonia Sotomayor is, sadly, unable to speak for herself."

That's funny, as she didn't seem to have much problem at all doing so, at least until her views on the acceptability of legislating from the bench, as well as her racist ranking of Hispanic women over white men (at least as relating to judicial competence) became more widely known.

We know that we've been hitting Sotomayor hard around here recently, but we believe that it's vitally important (and completely relevant to this blog) to do so, as activist judges like her regularly rob American citizens of the freedoms and fairness guaranteed by the Constitution to them, simply because the jurists feel like doing so.

It's hoped that the readers of this blog realize just how bad of a pick Judge Sotomayor is for the Supreme Court, as it is "policy-making" overreachers just like her that:

Decided that an official government policy of wiretapping American citizens without a warrant is A-OK;

Ruled that a municipality is perfectly justified in taking someone's home by eminent domain and giving it to another private party, solely because the town will then generate more tax revenue;

Think that using taxpayer money to take over and run a bankrupt private industry is perfectly reasonable;

Decreed that a city may ignore the Second Amendment whenever it pleases;

Found a right to abortion in the Fourteenth Amendment (whatever one thinks of this volatile issue, there's no mention of it anywhere in the Constitution).

And on and on.

This disastrous appointment must be rejected by the American people, not for any ideological, political, racial (and/or gender) or personal reasons, but because judicial lawmaking and institutional societal engineering is undesirable at any court level, but is particularly unacceptable at the Supreme Court, as there is no further place to appeal their decisions.