Good man:
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell will formally announce his opposition to Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court in a floor speech on Monday, July 20. The following are unembargoed excerpts from his prepared remarks:
“From the beginning of this confirmation process, I’ve said that Americans expect one thing when they walk into a court room, whether it’s a traffic court or the Supreme Court — and that’s equal treatment under the law. Over the years, Americans have accepted significant ideological differences in the kinds of men and women that various presidents have nominated to the Supreme Court. But one thing Americans will never tolerate in a nominee is a belief that some groups are more deserving of a fair shake than others. Nothing could be more offensive to the American sensibility than that. Judge Sotomayor is a fine person with an impressive story and a distinguished background. But above all else, a judge must check his or her personal or political agenda at the courtroom door and do justice even-handedly, as the judicial oath requires.”
“Judge Sotomayor’s record of written statements suggest an alarming lack of respect for the notion of equal justice, and therefore, in my view, an insufficient willingness to abide by the judicial oath…”
Sotomayor is manifestly unqualified to be on any court, let alone the Supreme Court (yes, liberals, I know she advanced under GOP Presidents, too…but using that as some sort of “gotcha” against GOP opposition to her appointment just shows you are either (a) liars or (b) entirely ignorant about how judicial nominations are done). Senator McConnell has done the right thing, and I hope he manages to convince the entire Senate GOP to vote against. We can’t stop this unqualified person from sitting on our Supreme Court, but we can register our disdain for the racial pandering Obama is using in this Supreme Court nomination in order to secure a lock-step, leftist vote on the Court.
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