But he does document quite nicely how Judge Sotomayor did not defend her past – she ran from it. So the question is, was she truthful?

USA Today

“Opposing view: A confirmation conversion
Nominee lacks deep convictions needed to resist judicial activism.

By Jeff Sessions

Elections have consequences: President Obama’s first nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, will likely be confirmed.

But supporters of liberal judicial philosophy might find it a Pyrrhic victory. During three days of careful questioning, Judge Sotomayor renounced the pillars of activist thinking.

She rejected the president’s “empathy standard,” abandoned her statements that a judge’s “opinions, sympathies and prejudices” may guide decision-making, dismissed remarks that personal experiences should “affect the facts that judges choose to see,” brushed aside her repeated “wise Latina” comment as “a rhetorical flourish,” and championed judicial restraint.

Judge Sotomayor’s attempt to rebrand her previously stated judicial approach was, as one editorial page opined, “uncomfortably close to disingenuous.”

Why not defend the philosophy she had articulated so carefully over the years?

Because the American people overwhelmingly reject the notion that unelected judges should set policy or allow their social, moral, or political views to influence the outcome of cases. Rather, the public wants and expects restrained courts, tethered to the Constitution, and judges who impartially apply the law to the facts.

In the end, her testimony served as a repudiation of judicial activism.

But pledging “fidelity to the law” and practicing judicial restraint are different things. Which Sotomayor will we get?

At the hearings, which were praised for their substance and respectful tone, we looked closely at the record:

– Her 2006 private property decision permitted the government to take property from one developer and give it to another.

– Her 2008 Ricci decision allowed a city to discriminate against one group of firefighters because of their race. That ruling was recently reversed by the Supreme Court.

– Her 2009 Second Amendment decision would give states the power to ban firearms.

These rulings have three things in common. Each was contrary to the Constitution. Each was decided in a brief opinion, short on analysis. And each was consistent with liberal political thought.

I don’t believe that Judge Sotomayor has the deep-rooted convictions necessary to resist the siren call of judicial activism. She has evoked its mantra too often. As someone who cares deeply about our great heritage of law, I must withhold my consent. “

I would blast some more but I got to leave for a golf match with Jim Earl and Joe Bill down at Countryland Golf Club. You might could pray for me. My putting’s been awful lately. Have a good weekend everybody.

The drunk answers, “Yes, I am.” So the preacher grabs him and dunks him in the water.
He pulls him up and asks the drunk, “Brother, Have you found Jesus?”
The drunk replies, “No, I haven’t found Jesus.”

The preacher shocked at the answer, dunks him into the water again for a little longer this time. He again pulls him out of the water and asks again, “Have you found Jesus, my brother?” The drunk again answers, “No, I haven’t found Jesus.”

By this time the preacher is at his wits end and dunks the drunk in the water again-but this time holds him down for about 30 seconds and when he begins kicking his arms and legs he pulls him up.

The preacher again asks the drunk. “For the love of God, have you found Jesus?”

The drunk wipes his eyes and catches his breath and says to the preacher,”Are you sure this is where he fell in?

Beamud, who, prior to moving to Atlanta in November of 2008, worked from 1996 to 2008 as a legal advisor for the Cambridge police department, hopes the incident will lead to more positive steps along the nation’s long road to racial reconciliation.

Well, well, “news” that the AJC specializes in, race baiting, who would have expected them to pass up the chance to breath new life into this goony scenario of theirs?

What would the day be without some stereotyping, eh?

Perhaps the grim reaper came a’callin for the AJC last evening, the circulation monster carried her whining and moaning into the dark night?

Nah, we aren’t that lucky, I’ll bet bookman’s side duties included delivery, did he bother telling the intern he was gone?

Who will he trample upon today?

80s: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhbMxozm6tQ

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