Sotomayor : LA RAZA, judicial activism, etc.

I received this from RightMarch.com - it has some good info on nominee Sonia Sotomayor. I left in a couple of the links to send blast faxes to Congress. There is also a link to send a free message to your Senator at the bottom of the post and I put it here. As always, you can also send a FREE message directly to your U.S. Senators by selecting here.

Barack Obama's Nominee for the Supreme Court is a Member of LA RAZA -- Select Below to Tell the Senate to REJECT Sonia Sotomayor: https://secure.conservativedonations.com/rm_sotomayor/?a=2501

ALERT: Not only has President Barack Obama picked a liberal judicial activist as his nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court...

... she turns out to ALSO be a member of the pro-illegal immigration group LA RAZA!

IT'S NOT TOO LATE. We can STOP the nomination of the far-left Judge Sonia Sotomayor? YES -- but only if YOU join your voice with hundreds of thousands of others, demanding she be rejected!

This is not some unfounded "internet rumor" -- none other than the prestigious American Bar Association has listed Sotomayor as a member of the National Council of La Raza, "a group that's promoted driver's licenses for illegal aliens, amnesty programs, and no immigration law enforcement by local and state police," according to WorldNet Daily.

"La Raza" means "the race"... and is a group that also has connections to organizations that advocate the separation of several southwestern states from the rest of America! In fact, in 2006, the late Rep. Charlie Norwood urged La Raza to renounce its support of the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan -- which sees "the Race" as part of an ethnic group that one day will reclaim Aztlan, the mythical birthplace of the Aztecs (in Chicano folklore, Aztlan includes California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and parts of Colorado and Texas).

Can you imagine if a Republican nominated a Caucasian judge for the Supreme Court, who was a member of a group called THE RACE that advocated government programs and actions favorable only to white people? Seriously?

Don't forget -- Sonia Sotomayor is the same woman who stated at a symposium sponsored by the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal in October 2001, "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."

You read that right -- Judge Sotomayor said that HER experience as a "wise Latina woman" would make her a better judge than a white man would be!

So, in Sonia Sotomayor, we're facing a judge who will "interpret" the law based on her ethnic background, rather than based on the LAW itself. In fact, she has gone even further to say, "Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences... our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging."

As if that wasn't enough to prove her race-based (and gender-based) bias on the bench, that's not all she said:

"I further accept that our experiences as women and people of color affect our decisions... enough people of color in enough cases, will make a difference in the process of judging."

Now, we find out she was also a member of LA RAZA. What's next -- going all the way, and nominating an actual illegal immigrant?

SEND YOUR BLAST FAXES NOW TO EVERY SINGLE U.S. SENATOR, DEMANDING THEY REJECT JUDGE SONIA SOTOMAYOR! https://secure.conservativedonations.com/rm_sotomayor/?a=2501

Barack Obama threatened during the presidential campaign to nominate liberal judicial activists who would push their left-wing policy preferences, instead of simply applying the law in a neutral manner. In selecting Sonia Sotomayor as his Supreme Court nominee, President Obama has carried out his threat and picked the most extreme nominee possible!

Over the last couple of weeks, Obama has stated that he wanted his pick for the highest court in the land to have "empathy" and not someone who's about some "abstract legal theory." He wanted someone who is going to be "compassionate" in deciding cases, and implied that his pick should not just stick to the rules handed down to us by the founding fathers. There's only one problem: that's what the Supreme Court IS about!

The real problem we face is this: what the far left have not been able to pass legislatively -- because the American people simply DO NOT support a far-left agenda -- they want to impose on the American people through the courts. THAT is why Obama has nominated Sotomayor: to push the Supreme Court further and further left, to advance that liberal agenda.

As proof, you only have to look at what liberals feel about her: Sotomayor is a favorite of far left special interest groups. In addition to her record as a hard left judicial activist, Sotomayor has been recommended for the Supreme Court by none other than Nan Aron of the VERY liberal "Alliance for Justice," who stated in a 2004 memo to the Senate Judiciary Committee that Sotomayor had "been through an initial vetting and fit into the criteria that WE believe should be the standard for any Supreme Court justice."

BUT... the "Alliance for Justice" believes that the Supreme Court should be all about legislating from the bench and imposing that far-left agenda on the American people! And THAT is who Barack Obama has nominated to serve the rest of her life on the U.S. Supreme Court!

Judge Sotomayor has already proven her bias, both before and after her time on the bench. For 12 years, she was one of the most active board members of the "Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund," where she played an active role in their aggressive stances on issues affecting Hispanics like police brutality, the death penalty and voting rights. According to the New York Times, "One of the legal defense fund's most important suits charged that a Police Department promotional exam discriminated against minority candidates. It was filed on behalf of the "Hispanic Society of the New York Police." The exams, the group charged, did not really measure the ability to perform in a more senior position, and were yielding "unfair "results: Too many whites were doing well, and too many Hispanics and African-Americans were not."

Apparently, two decades later, the now-Judge Sotomayor was still whistling the same tune: in one of her most controversial decisions, Ricci v. DeStefano, Sotomayor approved of the city of New Haven's racial quota system and its decision to deny 18 firefighters their earned promotions -- based on their skin color. This even provoked her own colleague, Judge Jose Cabranes (a fellow Clinton appointee) to object to the issued opinion that contained "no reference whatsoever to the constitutional issues at the core of this case!"

There are some serious problems with the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor that every single U.S. Senator NEEDS to look at when considering her for this high position. Here's the biggest one:

The Supreme Court itself says that this woman is WRONG!

Sotomayor has a TERRIBLE record as a Circuit Court judge, of being REVERSED by the U.S. Supreme Court over and over again. In fact, OVER HALF of her decisions as a Court of Appeals judge have been STRUCK DOWN!

You read that right: OVER HALF of Judge Sotomayor's decisions as a Circuit Court judge that have come up for review have been REJECTED -- OVERRULED -- STRUCK DOWN by the United State Supreme Court!

If the U.S. Supreme Court says this woman is wrong, HOW CAN THE U.S. SENATE SAY SHE IS RIGHT???

The answer is, they should NOT. But it's up to US -- YOU AND ME -- to make that LOUD AND CLEAR to them!

TAKE ACTION: Even pundits on the left are critical of Obama's pick of Judge Sotomayor. Jeffrey Rosen, writing in The New Republic, discussed his investigation of her background, writing, "I've been talking to a range of people who have worked with her, nearly all of them former law clerks for other judges on the Second Circuit or former federal prosecutors in New York. Most are Democrats and all of them want President Obama to appoint a judicial star of the highest intellectual caliber who has the potential to change the direction of the court. Nearly all of them acknowledged that Sotomayor is a presumptive front-runner, but nearly none of them raved about her. They expressed questions about her temperament, her judicial craftsmanship, and most of all, her ability to provide an intellectual counterweight to the conservative justices, as well as a clear liberal alternative." Going further, Rosen writes:

The most consistent concern was that Sotomayor, although an able lawyer, was "not that smart and kind of a bully on the bench," as one former Second Circuit clerk for another judge put it. "She has an inflated opinion of herself, and is domineering during oral arguments, but her questions aren't penetrating and don't get to the heart of the issue." (During one argument, an elderly judicial colleague is said to have leaned over and said, "Will you please stop talking and let them talk?")

Even the liberal Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen expressed shock and disappointment at Sotomayor's recent approval in Ricci v. DeStefano of the city of New Haven's racial quota system and its decision to deny 18 firefighters their earned promotions -- based on their skin color.

So it's not just a bunch of biased right-wingers who are worried about Sotomayor's competence to be on the Supreme Court; even experts on the left, including lawyers and fellow judges who worked with her, have expressed serious doubts about her "intellectual capabilities" on matters of law!

Just four years ago, when speaking at Duke Law School, Judge Sotomayor "let slip" what is probably the most famous quote of her career: responding to a question on the pros and cons of different types of judicial clerkships, she let her TRUE beliefs slip out: she stated that the court "is where policy is made!" She tried to correct her slip, by joking that "I know this is on tape and I should never say that, because we don't 'make law,' I know, I know." In other words, she made it clear that she believes judges DO MAKE LAW!

SEND YOUR BLAST FAXES NOW TO EVERY SINGLE U.S. SENATOR, DEMANDING THEY REJECT JUDGE SONIA SOTOMAYOR! https://secure.conservativedonations.com/rm_sotomayor/?a=2501

Knowing that Judge Sonia Sotomayor is a supporter of pro-illegal immigration groups, that she's a far-left judicial activist, that she is intellectually unqualified to serve on the Supreme Court, and that people on the left AND the right feel the same way... How can we possibly just sit by and let Barack Obama impact this Court for YEARS to come, in the worst possible way?

The answer is, we CAN'T. So we've set up our website to enable you to send "Blast Faxes" to every single U.S. Senator AT ONCE, urging that they REJECT the Judge Sotomayor as unqualified to sit on the bench!

For about what it would cost you in time and telephone charges, you can send Blast Faxes to Democrats, Republicans, Independents -- EVERYONE in the U.S. Senate, DEMANDING that they STOP this liberal judicial activist from ascending to the highest court in the land!

In fact, we've set up two different faxes -- one for Republicans, demanding that they filibuster this nomination until Obama pulls Sotomayor's nomination (or she withdraws herself); and one to Democrats and Independents, demanding that they at least not allow her nomination to be rushed through and that her out-of-the-mainstream, far-left ideological beliefs be examined thoroughly.

We need to attack this nomination on all fronts -- so we've set up our Blast Fax system to do just that!

SEND YOUR BLAST FAXES NOW TO EVERY SINGLE U.S. SENATOR, DEMANDING THEY REJECT JUDGE SONIA SOTOMAYOR! https://secure.conservativedonations.com/rm_sotomayor/?a=2501

Please, take action right away to STOP this far-left-wing judicial activist from being confirmed to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court!

Sincerely,William Greene, PresidentRightMarch.com PAC

P.S. As hundreds of thousands of faxes now begin to pour in to the offices on Capitol Hill, the RightMarch.com PAC is ready to LOBBY HARD to make sure that our Congressmen follow through on our demands. But lobbying costs money -- so we need YOUR help to keep pounding away on these legislators to do the right thing!

By the way -- don't be fooled by President Obama's claim that Judge Sotomayor is a "bipartisan pick," just because President George H.W. Bush appointed her to the district court. The first President Bush nominated her in 1991 ONLY because the New York senators had forced on the White House a deal that enabled Democrat Senator Moynihan to name one of every four district-court nominees in New York! In 1998, when President Clinton nominated Sotomayor to the Second Circuit, 29 Republican Senators voted against her.

We need ALL FORTY Republican Senators voting against her this time -- PLUS at least a few more Democrats, to prevent her from ascending to the highest court in the land, and imposing her judicial activist philosophy on America for the rest of her life!

As always, you can also send a FREE message directly to your U.S. Senators by selecting here. Thank you!