If You Watch Closely, You Can Tell She's Lying. See? Her Lips Moved.

On the first day of confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonio Sotomayor she showed she has no problem contradicting reality in order to try and get on the Supreme Court. Sotomayor who has repeatedly stated that a wise Latina women would make a better decision than some old cracker, has now lied to Congress, saying that throughout her seventeen years on the bench, she has sought not to serve the interests of any one litigant, but always to serve the larger interest of impartial justice. This despite her failure to even bother addressing the constitutional merits of the now infamous Ricci case dealing with white and hispanic firefighters who weren't promoted despite passing the approved test because no African Americans passed. In fact, all 9 Justices disagreed with her particular holding in the case. Her position was, at least from my own legal analysis, idiotic, that the mere idea of a potential lawsuit by the African American firefighters who did not pass the test was sufficient to throw out the results and deny promotions. It is, however, a typically liberal position. She was right to the extent that she doesn't favor a particular litigant. The people she was favoring weren't even a party to the suit. Of the five Appeals Court decisions she has authored that were reviewed by the Supreme Court, not including the Ricci decision which I do not know if she fully authored, as it was unsigned, four have said she failed to correctly interpret the law, including one in which it upheld her result. This would suggest she is either ruling with an agenda, or that she is just a mediocre judge. I'm willing to say she's probably both. But she'll say whatever it takes to get through the hearing process, then rule that the Second Amendment doesn't apply to states, making it completely irrelevant and allowing states to ban guns entirely. That one was unsigned too. She seems to be a fan of anonymous rulings, which is pretty concerning for a judge that has been nominated to the Supreme Court, as it makes it that much more difficult to reveiw and discern her true opinion.