Supreme Court may get new face

Okay so at first they were saying that if she is confirmed she will be the first Hispanic judge on the bench -- but then one of the FoxNews anchors (Megan Kelly, the lawyer) pointed out that that isn't true that there is one already there.

Then someone pointed out some of the issues they may have with this woman. And I do think they are fairly significant problems .... she rules by race and gender by the sounds of it.

Is was quoted during a lecture at the Univ of CA as saying:

"I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences
would more often than not reach a better conclusion [as a judge] than a white
male who hasn't lived that life."

excuse me??? what the hell is that supposed to mean?
i would think that as a judge she should know better than to make such a discriminatory statement. Even justic Sutter said that a 'wise old man & an wise old woman would reach the same conclusion while looking at cases' ... it sounds like this gal lets her emotions rule her bench instead of the law -- that means she will legislate from the bench as the wind blows. One interviewee said that this emotional-ruling would be great from the local bench, but not from the Supreme/Appeals courts ... and he's right.

Then there was the case of the CT firefighters .... now this is just paraphrasing ... but here's what I heard. she was on the bench when a case came up involving the advancement of firefighters. The group suing had done better on the tests, much better by the sounds of it, but they were passed over for promotion of the second set of fighters. The judge ruled that the city was perfectly within their rights to do so and the case was tossed -- it is now going thru the process of going before the supreme court (which she will be on if confirmed).

the group passed over? white .... the group promoted? minorities. the claim? reversed discrimination.

I would be interesting to read exactly what her opinion was though ... how she figured this wasn't discrimination ... after all, I have to conclude that if the two groups were reversed that she would have allowed the promotions to stand as well (but I don't think so)

A few things on her background:

• she was an ADA in NY for about 5 years
• 1998: 2nd circuit court of appeals
• Bush (first one) nominated her as a Federal Judge
• father died when she was 8, he was a factory worker (no mention how he died though)
• grew up in Bronx housing project
• earned a scholarship to Princeton University
• graduated Sutta Cum Laude (a bit of reseach shows that this can vary from the top 1% of the graduating class to only those with a perfect GPA)
• went onto Yale Law school

Don't get me wrong -- I would love to see her get on the bench if she were more towards the center, okay maybe right of center ... but she sounds like she swings awfully far to the left. It almost sounds like instead of having a rule of Law, we will have a rule of Heart -- and that is very bad for the courts ... and it was one of the things that kept women from being promoted for all those years.

There was a concern that women would rule by emotion instead of law --- man I hope she isn't this way.