SOTOMAYOR, THE THIRD TIME AROUND?

The National Rifle Association decision to downgrade senators who supported the Sotomayor nomination should be applauded, not just for its opposition to the nominee, but for being a stalwart organization that always looked for what was best for America. The nomination happened to be a complete anathema, and the NRA saw it expedient enough to oppose it, despite Sotomayor's disregard for gun rights.

Its annual candidate ratings stood for the recognition of patriotic leanings of politicians in situations as appointing a Justice to the Supreme Court of the United States. In other words, it (list of candidate ratings) called for an action of separating patriots from the general population, due to the seriousness, as that of the appointment of a Justice of the Supreme Court, which by all calculations, was a pivotal national issue. It could drastically alter the legal landscape of the nation. It was more dire than guns and pistols.

Yet, that was just one consideration; and there were several others, including the fact that she, Sotomayor, was biased in 75% of her rulings on many sensitive matters, involving race, gender and ethnicity; and that was certainly not conducive to the legal health of the nation. Laws that we all hold so dear must be protected. The point being that, if such a person succeeded in reaching the status of a Justice in the legal system, he or she was bound to carry his or her attitudes to that position, regardless of the responses that senators were able to formally extract from that candidate during the confirmation proceedings.

Attitudes were hard to change; and in her case, absolute attitudes, involving her beliefs, prejudices and convictions, were absolutely difficult, if not unnatural, to change. Her personal statements, both public and private, bore witness to those facts; not to mention her own testimonies and philosophies on other subjects such as abortion, and on Roe Vs. Wade itself.

Where would that leave the country then, but in a quagmire of legal rigmarole, inextricably hard, if not impossible, to free itself from, for many years.

Again, a great majority of Americans were rightfully aiming to have someone who would interpret the law, according to the dictates of the Constitution of the United States. Period. Anything else was complete balderdash and totally unacceptable.

P.S. The Judge has appeared before the Senators more than once. Each time, she came away doing the opposite of the corrective answers she gave them.