Fact Check: Senator attempts to avoid Sotomayor’s exact quotes!
Surprise! Surprise! Democrat Senators misquote Judge Sotomayor to avoid her racist controversial comments. The AP reported the following today from Senator Patrick Leahy (D).
WASHINGTON (AP) – In endorsing Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy did some creative rewriting of history. And he put quote marks around it.
Trying to head off criticism of a controversial comment, Leahy misquoted Sotomayor’s own words in kicking off the second day of her confirmation hearings.
Sotomayor’s public comments are as much a part of the hearings as her lengthy judicial record. Here’s a look at some of the claims made Tuesday about those comments, and the facts.
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LEAHY SAID: “You said that, quote, you ‘would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would reach wise decisions.’”
THE FACTS: If that’s all Sotomayor said, the quote would barely have mattered to opponents of her nomination. The actual quote, delivered in a 2001 speech to law students at the University of California at Berkeley, was: “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”
Leahy’s revision dropped the controversial part of the phrase, the part that has attracted charges of reverse racism.
It never ceases to amaze me how in love the liberal Democrats are with activist judges. (What are they teaching about the law at Yale anyhow?) It seems every other judge out of that fine University believes that law is decided and written from the bench, not from the legislator. Even Sotomayor was so brave to state it on tape. Her quote from the AP article is below…
In a 2005 Duke University panel discussion, a student asked whether it’s better to clerk for a district judge or an appellate judge. She told the student that, if pursuing a career in public-interest law, then appeals court experience is important.
“The court of appeals is where policy is made,” she said, adding moments later, “I know this is on tape, and I should never say that, because we don’t make law. I’m not promoting it, and I’m not advocating it. I’m—you know.”
There you have it, right from the mouth of Sotomayor, and on tape no less! She blatantly says that the court of appeals is where policy is made and then tries to cover it up by saying she should never say that or promote that, especially on tape… It doesn’t take a Phd to figure out that Sotomayor is an activist judge. Someone who desires to, and will determine law from her own prejudices, instead of correctly interpreting the law based on the facts of the case. (Still don’t believe me? Check out her opinions on the 2nd Amendment here.)
This is a perfect opportunity for the Republicans to explain the rule of law to the people of this great nation. Lets hope they don’t let us down.
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