Judging Sonia

Unless you have been living under a rock, you have heard about Presidents Obama’s choice for a place on the highest court in the country. As a country I think we have grown past issues of whether or not a person is good for the job because of gender, and I think we could even say we have reached past the issue of color. Yet, as a country I do not think we have been able to reach past a persons level of pride in ones culture.

President Obama’s choice for a seat on the supreme court is a women, but not just any women, a women that is proud of here Latino heritage. For some it is not a question of her abilities to judge, for many it is a question of whether or not she will be able to look past her heritage and see that it is not birth right that decides the law, it is the law itself. With Statements that would make Thurgood Marshall turn over in his grave, what really drives Judge Sotomayor, what really makes here tick? Now, if anyone has ever meet a person from the Bronx, then you would know, Judge Sotomayor’s prides in her heritage stems from her growing up in the Bronx. People from New York have an energy about them, but people from the Bronx are just Super Novas. I believe that it is safe for me to say that Judge Sotomayor maybe one of the most out spoken judges we have ever had. One that is not fearful of the history of the position, and one that does not take the responsibility lightly.

Yet, I believe that it is her back ground that will set here apart from any justice in history. Yes, Thurgood Marshall was our first justice of color, but Justice Marshall understood that what he did would would pave the way for a Sotomayor. Yet, the question remains, that when one person opens the door, who will come to tare it down. Success for Judge Sotomayor can not be understood by many men, whether or not they are white or black. It can not even be understood my the other women who are great in their own right. Because, know matter how you look at it, Justice Mayor is not just a women, not just a Latino, Justice Mayor is a dreamed completed. Birthed into a world where her father only had a third grade education, and could not speak any English, Judge Mayor’s view of America is far more different than that of a white male, it is far more different than that of a black male. We must not look at her in a manor of her pride in her heritage, but we must look at her in the light that without American, and its Laws, she would not be at this moment in time. No matter your back ground, how you look at the world will be filtered through the glasses of your past. Yet, when it comes to the Law, the prescription of the glasses have already been put into place for you.

Abiding by the rules of Law is not just the what the citizens of this great country have to abide by, but it is the place of the Justices to not only abide by it them themselves, but consume the law to the point that we no longer see the Justices, but we see the human embodiment of the Law. The question for many Americans is that judging from Judge Mayor’s past statements, about here life experiences could lead her to decisions better than a white male. It is understandable, to wonder if her filter is through that of color rather than the law. Yet, her record does not tell us that her heritage has mattered before. Many of here cases have been done by the book. However, we are not only judge her by her past decision, statements, or heritage.

Yet, we must understand that the law must judge the justice before there can be a judgment. I believe that Judge Mayor has come to far now, to allow here career to be defined by just her heritage. I believe that Judge Mayor is now ready for the Law to be the final judgment of here career, one that if confirmed will speak more loudly than any past or future statements.