Sonia Sotomayor Argued for a Felon’s Right to Vote
by Maggie at Maggie’s Notebook
Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s first Supreme Court nominee, wrote the dissent on a decision rendered by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Hayden v. Pataki. New York state inmates filed a lawsuit “claiming that because blacks and Latinos make up a disproportionate share of the prison population, the state’s refusal to allow them ballot access amounts to an unlawful, race-based denial of their right to vote.
Sonia SotomayorJudge Jose Cabranes wrote the majority decision in favor of the state of New York and against the “criminal felons.” Eight members of the Second Circuit voted against Hayden in the case. The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals rendered the same decision in a similar case. Sotomayor wrote the dissent. According to a Washington Times editorial:
In a remarkably dismissive, four-paragraph opinion, she alleged that the “plain terms” of the Voting Rights Act would allow such race-based claims to go forward.
Judge Cabranes‘ decision in favor of the state was backed up with this:
Particularly compelling is the fact that the Voting Rights Act was passed to help further the aims of the Constitution’s 14th and 15th Amendments. The 14th Amendment specifically allows states to deny the vote to those convicted of crimes.
So, essentially, Sotomayor’s dissent said that Congress could:
…prohibit New York from doing something the Constitution itself specifically endorses.
Incredible! More from the editorial:
It’s as if she thinks black and Hispanic felons are convicted in order to deny them the vote, rather than that they are denied the vote as a result of being duly convicted. Her position ignores the fact that it is the convicts’ own actions, their crimes – not any state-based racial discrimination – that make those felons ineligible to vote.
Remember this supposedly single quote from Sonia Sotomayor?
I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would, more often than not, reach a better conclusion.
The White House says if Sotomayor had the opportunity, she would have used other words. Nope, apparently not. She has repeated the same or given a version of the same over and over. As Hot Air says:
Evidently, the idea that her biology makes her a superior judge has been with her for decades.
The woman believes the death penalty is “racist” and “against humanist thinking,” and she believes felons should have the right to vote. We should begin hearing some strong objections to her nomination coming out of Congress this week. Right?
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Posted by Maggie Thornton on June 8, 2009 11:01 am
» Filed Under Activist Judges, Constitution, Elections, Judicial Impeachment, Judicial Tyranny, Multiculturalism/PC, News, Racism, Revisionism, U.S. Constitution, liberalism
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Well, uh, gee. How about a “disproportionately” large amount of blacks and latinos not go to jail in the first place? Derr.
And where are the Republicans Maggie? I’m listening, but not hearing much from them.
Debbie, not a single clairon call. A deafening silence. No surprises. It literally makes my stomach queasy to think how much our conservatives ignore. God help us.
Alex, are you arguing that common sense should be a part of judicial thinking?
I called and e-mailed Sen. Jeff Sessions from Alabama. This is incredible. We don’t have a failure to communicate, we did just fine on April 15. I say we include Sotomayor be a part of our Tea Parties this July 4th! (130 Cherry Ave, Bixby Park, Long Beach, California. Shameless plug.)
We do not have MEN in the senate. I consider it racist not to treat her as if she were an OLD WHITE MAN. After all, she wants equality, right?