I received suggestions for my next entry, and I will address those subjects in time. However, there is a question before the Nation which deserves everyone’s attention and immediate action… That is the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor as Associate Justice of the United States of America.
What follows is a slightly edited text of that which I sent to all seven Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. This letter was sent to Jeff Sessions of Alabama, Orrin Hatch of Utah, Charles Grassley of Iowa, Jon Kyl of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, John Cornyn of Texas, and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma.
I urge you to contact your US Representative & Senators to bring “thoughtful encouragement” upon these gentlemen to do their duty to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic! My next move will be to share this message with every Republican in the House and Senate, and with the top 50 newspapers and media outlets in the U.S.. What will be your next move?
Here is the text of my message to the Republican Senators on the Judiciary:
“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”
Do those words of Sonia Sotomayor, in Berkely, California in 2002, bother you? If not, then do you defend the following remarks in 2002, by Judge Sotomayor; when she stated: "… I wonder whether by ignoring our differences as women or men of color we do a disservice both to the law and society."
Isn’t there supposed to be equal justice under the law? In a society which aspires to colorblindness and the rule of law rather than the rule of men, Judge Sotomayor’s public statements are breathtaking and call into question her ability to apply the law impartially. Additionally, her history of unabashedly legislating from the bench is prima facia evidence that she has not the temperment to serve as a juror, much less a jurist.
Consider that Sotomayor, in Ricci v. DeStefano upheld the policy of a city that used racially discriminatory practices to deny promotion for firefighters.
In this case, Sotomayor was chastised by fellow Clinton appointee, Judge José Cabranes regarding her reckless and indefensible action in summarily dismissing the case and failing to apply the law equally.
I am writing you today to ask you to stand together to defend the Constitution of the United States of America. I am asking you to stand together… Do not break ranks… And exhibit your Patriotism & Fidelity to Our Nation by stopping this farce of a nomination by forcing the provisions of Rule IV of the Rules of Procedure of the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, which states: "The Chairman shall entertain a non-debatable motion to bring a matter before the Committee to a vote. If there is objection to bring the matter to a vote without further debate, a roll call vote of the Committee shall be taken, and debate shall be terminated if the motion to bring the matter to a vote without further debate passes with ten votes in the affirmative, one of which must be cast by the minority."
You and the other six Republican Senators of the Judiciary Committee have the power to prevent the confirmation of Judge Sotomayor to the Supreme Court from being rammed through the Senate. The American people have heard the news reports that this nomination is a fait accompli. You & I both know that there is nothing further from the truth! The American people have heard Republican leaders state that they want to be "fair." And you should be! And you are to be applauded for giving liberals more courtesy than they extended to Judge Robert Bork, Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Samuel Alito, Chief Justice John Roberts and others. However, the Senate must not serve as a rubber stamp of this extreme nominee. There is no place for judicial activism on the Supreme Court!
More important than anything else I send to you today, please take note of this plea from a simple, old soldier…
Do not abandon and dishonour the sacrifices made by my family & our Brothers in Arms by not stopping this nomination dead in it’s tracks. In the past three generations of my family we have served in the 45th Infantry Division which landed at Anzio… We have served in the Korean Conflict… Continual twenty-four Hour Airborne Alert in a B-52, flying tracks over the Atlantic during the Cuban Missile Crisis during that fateful week in October… Air and ground combat in Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia… The Cold War… Genada, W.I. during Operation Urgent Fury… And left our families to answer the call to active duty during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.
We all have served our country with Honour & Distinction for those ideals upon which Our Nation was founded, and for the Liberty & Freedom that is given by God Almighty to all men for the past seventy-plus years. We all have done our duty… All I am asking is that you do yours.
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