Let me begin by saying I'm neither for or against Sonia Sotomayor,

Obamas Appointment of Sotomayor Fails to Offer Educational Diversity to Court.

True, What did you expect, of course he would chose someone who's education no one could fault as being second class(or working class)

No set of life experiences disqualifies a person from becoming a good, fair judge faithful to the law. Wise women (or men) earn their wisdom, actively gathering knowledge from the world around them, learning to make decisions "not to serve the interests of any one litigant, but always to serve the largest interest of impartial justice."

True, But NO ONE is truly impartial whether they know it or not. My only concern with her ethicity and reigious beliefs would be if it makes her blindly pro-life under any cercumstances (i.e. : rape, incest, etc...) this lack of compasion and empathy would turn me against her.

In a country where every day we can see are a thousand clues that systematic social inequality still exists, that one set of life experiences is structurally different from another -- just look at who is in Congress, who is in college, or who is in prison; look at how much different people get paid for the same work; look at who still owns most of the wealth -- it probably behooves us to make sure that the Supreme Court includes some diversity of experience. If we want a group of people who can identify what's broken, it helps if they've seen the problem from several different sides.

So very true, The legal system is not fair, and doesn't seem all that interested in what is actualy right or fair. It seems more concerned with what is legal(wihich isn't always right. consider who writes the laws,LAWYERS) mostly white upper middle class or higher ivy league types who have no expirience with what it's like to be the majority of the population(lower middle class and below. Even those from an ethnic background like Clarence Thomas seem not to remember the devisions that have and still exist in this country where you can still find a fairly recent example of a lynching of an ethic person.

Diversity in education is extremely important. We need to look for diversity in our ideas, and if our leaders are from the same educational background, they lose the original power of their ethnic and gender diversity. The ethnic and gender diversity many of our current leaders possess no longer brings a plethora of new ideas, only the same perspective they learned from their common Ivy League education. One example of the common education problem is that Yale has been heavily influenced by a former lecturer at Yale, Judge Frank, who developed the philosophy of Legal Realism. Frank argued that Judges should not only look at the original intent of the Constitution, but they should also bring in outside influences, including their own experiences in order to determine the law. This negative interpretation has influenced both Conservatives and Liberals graduating from Yale. It has been said that Legal Realism has infested Yale Law School and turned lawyers into political activists.

Tue enough, But shouldn't judges be political activists, charging or orverturning unjust, unfair or just plain EVIL laws from darker times. Does anyone see the chances of a UCLA or Berkley(Great west coast schools) or any non-ivy league getting voted into the supreme court(Has there been at least one yet?)

Sonia Sotomayor is not the brightest jurist. I believe that President Obama was functionally wrong to put such a dunderhead on the court. I have watched the proceedings and she comes across as a reverse racist who has a bad temper with colleagues. We do not need a firebrand on the Supreme Court, we need a thoughtful jurist, one who can weigh the interests of trade, commerce, crime and civil rights. We do not need a prosecutors voice with so many poor jurists already on the court. Justice Thomas and Justice Roberts are the poorist jurists I have read in their opinions. Sotomayor will be no better. I beleve Jeffrey Toobin, Lis Wiehl and Bill O'reilly would make better jurists. I do not like O'Reilly but he does have a voice and we know he is not an overt racist.

FOR ABORTION

FOR GUN CONTROL

FOR HOMOSEXUAL RELATIONS

enough said.

e-mail your Senator now !!!!!

There is no way this lady should ever have been a judge. I do not believe that anyone can judge anything without applying some degree of personal feeling to an issue. The importance is if the person can justify their opinion regardless of what it is. Also, any candidate for any position in law enforcement, especially a judgeship, should never be hired for a job if they have ever belonged or have been associated with a group with racial undertones and identifiers and sympathizers. I don't see how she is fit to be a judge in anything but traffic court. Her appointment to the Supreme Court not only makes a mockery of the judiciary but also shows your president (don't blame me) values where a person came from more than their record in a court room and the content of their judgements. So what if she is the first hispanic and a woman to possibly be appointed, last I checked she is American prior to that and we should not be subjected to her tenure of personal feelings influencing rulings on issues that will shape our society for future generations. I have faith that someone in our Senate will step up and make the right choice on what is good for America. If not, we will be seeing alot more illegal aliens getting things for free that we are paying for and our ability to protect ourselves taken away from criminal loving Obamanites and our Constitution destroyed and life as we know it changed forever. Do you really want Sotomayor?