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The Supreme Court of this land, being a co-equal branch of government, (remember that from HS Social Studies/Civics/American Government)...The President has the right....WITH THE ADVICE AND CONSENT OF THE CONGRESS to appoint whom he sees fit fill any vacant seats on the Supreme Court. This is exactly why our Constitution is the greatest in the world.
While I may not personally agree with Judge Sotomayor on many issues, it is the President's right and obligation to nominate people to the Supreme Court and the Senate's responsibility to FAIRLY examine them for fitness. Judge Sotomayor is a competant jurist.....she deserves the "advice and confirmation" of the Senate.
The white man they spent their amunition in the first round. What are these white burgeon man thinking?,as they seat like kings and queen's in a pedestal in front of this " Superior Latina Woman' . People wake up this country is not compused only of old white!. The Supre Court has to come to terms and evolve to a new era, of a new country this great country and its diversity this nation have. Sonia Sotomayor ( you pronounce " sonia sotomajor" ), will bring her 17 yeear experince on the bench as a major judge, she also techead law and as a Latina woman growing in this country. We should be proud to see what comes out of a person that comes to this country and dedicates hersefl, this is an example for future latinas, latinos generations.
Its curious that nobody wants to talk about the white privelage that is lording over these hearings. What are these white men thinking as they sit on pedestals in front of this superior latina women, her friends, family, children included, most are people of color in the first two rows behind her, as if they were all waiting for permission to be legitimized by this panel of white privelage. Its time we change those faces that hold us down. We have a long way to go if people like Sessions are actually given the power to sit in on nomination hearings of this nature.
When in doubt I always look 2 indicators of character/present circumstances as the method by which I define the core of a person/ issue. His dream, was of when a man was judged by the content of his character and not by the color of thier skin.(MLK). So who's to say that women ar'nt smarter than men? According to scientific study both side of the female brain light up in the act of listening,compared to only one side in the males. What we all need to accept is that the Latin community is quite lg. both here in the states and around the world. Like it or not we had better learn to play nice, because Anglo-Saxons are not the Majority in this world. When you give racism, you get it back or your kids do. Make no mistake, we could do much worse. Sotomayor, rough translation:(our eldest). Is of A satillite nation, Puerto Ricans died in Vietnam, 4 us. We have a responsiblity to include thier future generations welfare with our own. I understand the fear of her nay-sayers, kinda like a spy among us and where it is true that cultures protect thier own, I belive she would stand as a beacon of hope among the young Latino children here and abroad. That if you do the right thing, you to, could sit in high office. Like the hope President Obama brought to young black children. It's the children that are the most important and so few have real life hero's to emulate. It's a risk I'm willing to take for peace among the races, lest the visions Of Charlie Manson come to complete fruation. Thier well on thier way in Chicago, LA., Texas. Do any of you relize how close we're coming to a all out war in our streets? It's a bitter pill but Karma often is. I belive centuries of high-handness is about to be dealt a humbling blow, long overdue and yrs from being forgotten. We can soften that a tiny bit by confirming Mrs.SotoMayor with as little race speak as possible. And if she reverses Rowe V Wade or endorses unlimited amnesty, I'll be the first to fall on my sword.
Wisdom reflects both intelligence and life experience. Of course Sonia Sotomayor is influenced by her past, as we all are, and it was honest of her to say so. Anyone who interpreted Sotomayor's comment to mean that Latina women are brighter than white men missed her point entirely.
Our Supreme Court Justices, for the most part, have lived in the United States as white men. Isn't it realistic to imagine that their social positions influenced how they were treated, what they saw, how they learned to think -- and that all this influences their understanding of the Constitution?
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."
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.
We need nine wise people on the Court, to be sure; that's the minimum criterion. Given that there are more than nine wise people to pick from, aren't we best off with nine who together cover as broad as possible a range of understanding of human experience?
