By Allan Wall
June 16, 2009
NewsWithViews.com
The
Supreme Court is America’s highest court of justice, authorized
in Article 3 of the Constitution. It’s been meeting since 1790 and
its traditions are many.
I remember when I visited Washington, D.C., many years ago, there was
something special about that Supreme Court building.
There are only nine justices on the court, they aren’t replaced
very often, and they may serve for decades. So it’s a special time
when a new one is being nominated and considered.
What characteristics, then, should we look for in a Supreme Court justice?
Shouldn’t a new justice be selected on the basis of his knowledge
of and fidelity to the U.S. Constitution and the Anglo-American common
law legal tradition?
Or is it better to just pick a justice on the basis of ethnic identity
politics?
Here
it is 2009 and President Obama has appointed Sonia Sotomayor as the next
justice.
Whence the publicity? Judge Sotomayor is a “Latina,” and would
therefore be the first “Latina” on the court. This is regarded
as a Big Deal, especially by those who believe that we must, in every
possible way, do everything possible to pander to the “Hispanic
Vote.”
So yes, we have identity politics at work here. Just imagine future appointments
to the court. The first “Asian-American” justice. The first
“Muslim-American”
justice. The first “Hearing-Impaired Black Hispanic Lesbian Justice.”
The possiblities are myriad. Some day, they may feel compelled to expand
the membership of the court to accommodate more “minorities.”
There is a symbol of judicial impartiality, in use since the time of the
Renaissance, which portrays justice as a blindfolded woman brandishing
a sword and set of scales.
Sonia Sotomayor, in contrast, had this to say about impartiality:
“….our gender and national origins may and will make a difference
in our judging.”
Sounds like it’s time to dump “Lady Justice” on the
ash heap, and replace her with “Lady Latina.” After all, Sotomayor
herself said she thought a “wise Latina” could make a better
judgment than a white man who hadn’t had the same experience.
Judge Sotomayor has made so many comments in the past about her Latino
identity. It is very important to her. In fact, here’s a quote that
reveals that she doesn’t even identify with mainstream American
culture:
“….individuals like us, many of whom are born in this completely
different American culture, still identify so strongly with those communities
in which our parents were born and raised.”
What will Republicans do when Sotomayor is interviewed in the Senate?
What should they do?
Should they question her about her previous comments? Should they go easy
on her so as not to offend Hispanic voters?
Consider the words of Lionel Sosa. This gentleman is a longtime Hispanic
Republican, who designed advertisements to reach Latinos, for both Ronald
Reagan and George W. Bush.
Sosa says the GOP should not oppose Sotomayor, that to do so “would
be one more nail in the Republicans’ image coffin in terms of Latino
voters.”
Sosa went so far as to say "When you're anti the first Latina on
the Supreme Court, you're anti my family. As a Republican, I would take
it that these people are anti-Latino. The worst thing the Republicans
can do is oppose her."
Did you catch that? All his years as a Republican, but where does his
loyalty still lie? With whom does he still identify?
Now he’s saying that Republicans shouldn’t oppose even a leftist
Hispanic for fear of offending Latinos!
Thanks
in great part to mass immigration, the Latino population is growing rapidly
in the U.S. More and more of them are not assimilating, and with attitudes
like this, it’s hard not to see why.
What the professional Hispanic Lobby wants is NOT equal justice under
the law. What this Lobby wants is special privileges for Hispanics. If
present trends continue, you can expect the transformation of the U.S.A.
into a northern appendage of Latin America.
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Before jumping on the multicultural/Affirmative Action/Pander to Hispanics bandwagon, it’s time to really sit down and ask ourselves if this is the direction in which we want our country to go.
Is this the kind of justice we want for our nation’s future?
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Allan Wall recently returned to the U.S. after residing many years in Mexico.
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