The Wise Latina! Say's Who?

By Rich Kozlovich 

When I read these decisions coming down from SCOTUS I often wonder how many remember when Sotomayor was nominated to the court where she was challenged at the judiciary committee hearing about this comment she made "at the University of California School of Law at Berkeley. The conference's theme was: Raising the Bar: Latino and Latina Presence in the Judiciary and the Struggle for Representation" saying:

"I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would, more often than not, reach a better conclusion." 

So, in my view it seems to me the only conclusion one can come away with from that is being Latina made her more wise that whites, blacks, and Asians? That really didn't float all that well and she had to backtrack later saying: 

“I was using a rhetorical flourish that fell flat.” 

Please note, she didn't apologize. She didn't say she didn't really mean it. She didn't say that was wrong. And in no way did she back away from that view. What she said in effect was, all of you dummies just don't get it.

Well, I've kept a lot of files on Sotomayor, who thought San Francisco's new far-left DA, Chesa Boudin, who turned San Francisco into a hell hole was just fine.  Her high reversal rate alone should have demonstrated her abject lack of "wisdom", and certainly her lack of judicial understanding, and what should have been an insight she was an activist, not a judge.  Her open anti-Trump activism as a political hack was clearly obvious when she openly criticized the other members of the court "of putting a thumb on the scale in favor of the Trump administration by siding more times than not in his favor."  

Years ago I read WHORES: Why and How I Came to Fight the Establishment by Larry Klayman.  I find him a bit odd, but one thing came out clear as a bell in this book, and time has been showing this to be true, the federal judiciary is filled with political hacks.  Sotomayor epitomizes that declaration.

A wise Latina?  She claims there's no real definition for wise, well, again she's wrong.  Wisdom is the practical application of knowledge and understanding.  Wise decisions aren't based on the philosophical flavor of the day, especially leftist flavor's of the day , since they're as changeable as the latest ladies fashion. 

Wisdom is based on truth.  Truth is the sublime convergence of history and reality.  Everything were told has a historical foundation and context.  Everything we're told should bear some resemblance to what we see going on in reality.  If what's presented to us fails in either of those categories, it's wrong.  Saying it's right may be politically comfortable, but it isn't wisdom.  One more thought.  Who besides Sotomayor ever said she was wise?  And in point of fact, no one!

 

In this article by Monica Showalter, Catfight: Sotomayor mixes it up with Kagan in Supreme Court ruling on Warhol, she asks:

Does Supreme Court 'wise Latina' Justice Sonia Sotomayor have an ongoing feud with her equally leftist colleague, Justice Elena Kagan?.........Most of the Court, including Sotomayor, ruled that based on the copyright terms of use of the photograph..........In their majority ruling, they went through all the rules of fair use.......Kagan (and Chief Justice John Roberts in a simple concurrence) didn't agree.........

Apparently Kagan got publicly snotty, and Sotomayor got publicly snotty right back at her, which usually is not done by SCOTUS members.  However Showalter went on to say: 

But that one of the players here was the loosely wrapped Sotomayor, whom the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg reportedly couldn't stand based on her low legal brainpower, shouldn't surprise anyone.  Now, one thing that may have been going on here is that Kagan pretty well told the rest of the Court they were a bunch of art philistines in her ruling.  Which must have stuck in low-class Sotomayor's craw............

So, RBG thought the Wise Latina was a dummy?  Wow!  I'm almost going to break out in hives giving her a high five on that, and I wonder at what's wrong with Kagan's mind, who I also think is dumb as dirt. 

But there's possibly a larger issue involved here.  Lack of trust among the members.  Is there a lack of trust among the members of the court because of leaking the abortion decision?  A leak that caused very real concern over the safety of the members of this court!  Safety issues for which the Democrats are directly responsible.  

The thing I really took away from this is how brain dead can these people be if they can get this worked up over such a small issue?  How can they possibly control themselves in dealing with larger, and far more important issues?  

Wisdom and leftism are diametrically opposing values.  That's history, and that history is incontestable, and it's time for age and term limits on the federal judiciary, which is rampant with far left out of control incompetent lunatics.