The Sad Case of Sonia Sotomayor

On the drive home from work, I caught a replay of Glenn Beck, who had carried the President’s announcement of Sonia Sotomayor as the next Justice of the Supreme Court.

I’m already quite disturbed by many aspects of her legal record, but I found her personal story quite touching, but also troubling. It’s a remarkable story of “only in America.” She beat the odds and scrapped her whole life to get to be on the Court of Appeals, overcoming the death of her father, diabetes at a young age. Through the love and hard work of her mother, she received a Catholic School education, and ended up going to Princeton.

Yet, Judge Sotomayor’s most likely legacy is the preservation of the specious claim of a Constitutional Right to Abortion which has denied so many their opportunity to have their American dream. And she’ll do this while eating away at  the freedom and opportunity that made her story possible.