Legal racial bias.

Hey all, I need to address an issue that isn’t getting as much attention as I hoped. President Barack Obama in his quest to impose his views in every aspect of the federal government has now taken another step in the destruction of the American legal system. He has done so through the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor. Chuck Schumers endorsement will provide the Liberal support needed during her confirmation process in order to get confirmed. This nomination hopefully won’t get through if Americans who care about our Constitution, legal process, and country start speaking out against her.
I am not going to attack her judicial philosophy. Her record speaks for itself. Anyone with an objective mind will realize how bias her decisions have been throughout her career. Barack Obama’s intention to bring equality or so called representation for Hispanic through his nominee shows how little he knows about the Supreme Court. This highly revered body makes crucial decisions that affect everyone living in the United States. The Court can’t enforce it’s own decisions, but their decisions sometimes create cultural phenomenon more impacting than some laws. Also, the Court shouldn’t consist of politically motivated individuals regardless of their own ideology. A Supreme Court Justice needs to decide if the cases brought to them are in accordance with the Constitution. They are supposed to decide if a lower Court’s ruling abides by the Constitution as well. A Justice’s race, ethnicity, gender, nor ideology should even be a factor.
Barack Obama has brought more attention to race in everything he has done as President than any other President. Ironically he was supposed to prove that race doesn’t matter since he was the first African American elected to the White House. He did it when he ran for President, he did it when he chose Eric Holden as his Attorney General, and he is doing it now by nominating Judge Sotomayor. His goal by nominating her wasn’t to substitute Justice David Souter with a highly qualified jurist. He wanted to nominate someone who would balance the Court in terms of race and ethnicity. I hope Obama remembers what kind of decisions the Court has made in the past. Did the Justices race or ethnicity matter in their decision in Plessy, Korematsu, Roe, or Grutter and Gratz. All these cases affected America’s society and culture based on the decisions the Court made. If Obama manipulates the judiciary branch with his nominee it’ll mean that one more radical tentacle will get wrapped around another part of the federal government. It’ll mean that political stances will now supercede fairness and lawfulness in the Courtroom. Sotomayor could have the power to sway others in the Court if she gets confirmed.
It’s time once again for Americans to use their voices. Let Congress know that radical judges aren’t supposed to exist in a fair judicial system. It isn’t a perfect system, but it sure beats most other ones. Let those in power know that they have the ability to make sure that at least one part of the government maintains some objectivity. Who wants to one day have a day in Court knowing that you stand no chance in hell of succeeding due to your own personal beliefs? It isn’t too late to make sure no more activist judges are rewarded for trampling on the Constitution by using their own values as the deciding factor in a case. The idea of nominating Harriet Myers just to replace Sandra Day O’Connor with another woman on the Court was thankfully rectified, and I hope that a more impartial judge gets nominated to replace Justice Souter. James.