Sotomayor Another Catholic on the Supreme Court
Catholic League president Bill Donohue reacts to President Obama’s choice of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court:
When John Roberts was nominated to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, left-wingers accused President Bush of “Playing the Catholic card.” When Samuel Alito was selected by Bush, these same critics sounded the alarms over the prospect of a “majority” of the Supreme Court justices being Catholic. One would think that the selection of yet another Catholic to sit on the high court would drive these folks right over the edge. But for some reason, Sotomayor’s Catholic credentials don’t seem to matter. Is that because she is seen as reliably liberal?
Let’s face it: left-wingers would gladly accept nine Supreme Court Catholics if they were reliably liberal before they would ever accept a diverse court that was reliably conservative. Ancestry, anatomy and religious affiliation have always been oversold: what trumps everything is ideology.
At this stage, at least, the Catholic League takes no position on the merits of Sonia Sotomayor to be on the Supreme Court.
On a personal note, I must say that having spent four years in the 1970s teaching in a Catholic elementary school in Spanish Harlem, I loved working with the Puerto Rican people. Indeed, I feel some of the pride that Puerto Ricans rightly feel today. Good for them—this is their special day.
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The author here says a few wrong things.
yes ideology matters but this nomination was clearly about the ethnic and sex identity of the person.
No sir. Puerto Ricans do not deserve a high judge. They have that in Puerto Rico. americans deserve all the the top jobs without regard to identity. Thats the moral and legal law .
Yet instead I accuse President Obama of breaking the moral and legal law that gives the american people the absolute right to get in their country what their abilities allow them.
This is a robbery and hateful rejection of the American people who do not segregate themselves with hyphens.
This is a clear agenda to select people based on 'hispanic" and female identity.
In other words other identies do not deserve.
yes this is always a agenda with most recnt picks but this time its blantant rejection of equality before the flag and the law .
This judge will support affirmitive action laws because without them she would never be up there.
Its unlikely a small and recent people, especially women, would prevail over the long historic Americans or over represented ethnic americans, like Jews, in rising up.
No. The culture and climate in america today is about identity being priority one in who deserves what.
This is the substance of the Obama government and voting groups of the Democratic party.
This is a rejection also of historic European catholic groups and Jews who voted Democratic.
the most obscure peoples are getting rewards.
I gues a Mexican woman couldn't be found. This was the best female "hispanic".
I say Americans should question or accuse Obama of robbery and discrimination against the American people and by extension the common people of all nations who want to be treated as equals in their nations.
This is a outrage.
The author should be telling his former students to be loyal Americans and happy for any American to get top stuff.
Does the author mean no more Puerto Ricans deserve to be high Judges? Its others turns? I guess these kids are out of luck.
In America these kids should rise without opposition and yet this selection means they are done. Other ethnic groups get their turn.
This is to be opposed by true Americans on the principal this country is theirs from their minds, hands, blood and not for foreigners or concepts of identity that mean one doesn't get because of identity.
American conservatives should destroy this nomination on its blantant merits.
Also its wicked to pick judges for promised decisions of Roe etc.
We have already 5 wrong-wing catholics on the supreme court who are driving the country in the wrong direction based on their catholic superstition.
Let's hope that this new nominee is willing to keep her superstition to the privacy of her own home and be enlightened enough stand behind equal rights and against any form of discrimination.
No form of superstition should influence any supreme court decision.