Sotomayor’s Discriminating Defense

By: Mark Impomeni (Diary)  |  July 5th at 05:15 PM  | 

President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, has been deservedly criticized for her stated belief that minority judges make better decisions than “white males” because of their race, gender, ethnicity, and life experiences. The remark, repeated by Sotomayor in near identical form in speech after speech, has raised questions about her ability to be fair and impartial on the bench. Surprisingly less criticized | Read More »

Sotomayor, Obama, and the Felon Vote

By: Mark Impomeni (Diary)  |  June 1st at 06:00 PM  | 

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is an advocate of allowing felons to vote. “Advocate” is a loaded word when referring to a judge, and with good reason. Judges are not supposed to allow their personal preferences influence their interpretation of the law and the facts at issue in a given case. But their really is no other way to describe Sotomayor’s dissenting opinion in Hayden | Read More »