Colin Powell: Sotomayor has had a balanced judicial career and Republicans aren’t very nice to minorities
July 5th, 2009 by Rightwing Czar at 10:52 amColin Powell apparently wasn’t content with his nonsensical mumblings about slogans and small government so he decided to let us all know that he thinks reverse discrimination like Sotomayor displayed in Ricci is fine by him:
“What we can’t continue to have is to have somebody like a Judge Sotomayor … called a racist, a reverse racist and she ought to withdraw her nomination because we’re mad at her,” Powell said in an interview broadcast Sunday on “State of the Union”
How about withdrawing her nomination because her ruling in favor of reverse discrimination is unconstitutional and against everything we value as Americans? Is that a good enough reason to deny someone a seat on our nation’s highest court?
Powell said Sotomayor has “an open and liberal bent of mind, but that’s not disqualifying. But she seems to have a judicial record that seems to be balanced and tries to follow the law.”
Oh I’m glad she tries to follow the law. How do you account for the fact that roughly 60% of her rulings have been overturned by the Supreme Court? Is that someone trying to follow the law and just failing miserably? Do we really want to nominate someone who has been given a failing grade by the Supreme Court? Last time I checked, a 40% pass rate whenever SCOTUS hears one of your rulings isn’t someone with a very “balanced” judicial approach.
Most of what Colin Powell said was incoherent rambling though. His real point about Sotomayor is the same point that drove him to vote for Obama:
Powell, a Republican who supported Obama, said his party still is not sensitive enough toward minorities.
Good enough for me! We won’t object to the lunacy of Sotomayor’s rulings because she is a minority and we’ll let her be one of only nine people who settle the most important legal matters in our nation.
You know what that sounds like? Reverse discrimination.