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Contributed by Sam Minervino 2009-05-27

Portland — Liberals are an emotional bunch, they are driven by it. They appeal to feelings rather than common sense or practicality when making laws and pushing forward agendas. Now apparently emotion is the most important attribute when determining Constitutionality. The Constitution says…

“…the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact,”

…it doesn’t say anything about “empathy”, which is one of the most important reasons Obama says he nominated potential Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor.

This nomination is wrong on so many fronts. First, to come right out and say a person was nominated because of their sex or race eliminates a bunch of equally if not more qualified people. Not only white folks ought to be upset, but blacks, Indians, Asians and everyone else who isn’t Hispanic or a woman. Obama came right out and said none of you were qualified because of what you are, not your intellectual prowess.

Next, Obama and Sotomayer both think emotion should play a huge part of determining the outcome of court cases. Well, emotion might be nice when hugging a puppy or watching a chick-flick, but the ability to not let emotion affect analytical thought is a measure of civility. Emotion motivates lynch mobs while analysis is the determining factor of courts. Sotomayer may potentially be part of the most important court in the land but she wants to determine law with the knee jerk reactions of how she feels.

The ethnicity and sex of a judge “may and will make a difference in our judging.” This is the thinking of a person on the verge of determining the most precious and important determining factor of a civilized society; the law. Because she can’t understand that these ideas are wrong, she should never have been nominated in the first place. But try telling that to a President who has based every move he makes on his supporter’s emotions.