Discrimination: From Equality To Payback

by Thomas Sowell - June 15th, 2009 - Investor's Business Daily

The warm and genial image of Sotomayor presented on television, during President Obama's introduction and afterwards, is in sharp contrast with what attorneys who have appeared before her in court have said.

A poll of such attorneys showed them rating her worse than other judges in her treatment of those who appeared before her. A tape of Judge Sotomayor's abusive behavior in court backed up the attorneys' picture.

Sotomayor should frighten anyone who believes in equality and fair play. She is clearly a racist who feels comfortable with "payback" and has little respect for the Constitution and the concept of equality . If she is approved, it will take us even closer to the day when our nation will be beyond salvation as a nation that assures freedom. As it has for sixty years, the rule of law moves ever closer to the rule of judges.