Sonia Sotomayor: Supplemental Entry

This is a supplemental report of Sonia Sotomayor, since I did what I had left as an exercise for you to do. I looked her up on Wikipedia.


It is always amazing to me how mahny basic biographical facts Wikipedia often leaves OUT (lack of consistency perhaps being the price of the somewhat haphazard way Wikipedia is put togeter). However, you find out that Sotomayor was married, and then divorced in 1983--never, apparently, to marry again. Wikipedia quotes her as saying "my mother is my life". She has NO children. Thus, this "richness" of experience she brags about has MAJOR holes in it.


Now Wikipedia glosses right over the NAME of the person she married. Indeed, it does not even really state the full names of her mother and father--at least not in a concise biographical summary. I ma sure the references could reveal that informatioin, but I don't see any reason to leave basic biographical information out of the summary. You are talking no more than a single sentence or two to get every single factual detail (full names of parents, name and occupatioin of husband, etec.). Most of this info would naturally fit in a mere pharse or two in the appropriate place.


Never mind. My question is: Will the mainstream media question her EX-HUSBAND (if he is still alive). They would if this were a conservative. You can be sure leftist groups would, and would then tet any adverse information into the mainstream media.


Nope. I am NOT saying that Sonia Sotomayor should be rejected for the Supreme Court because she is divorced, or because she had no children. I will say that David Souter, who she is replacing, was a DISASTER on the Supreme Court, and he was unmarried. Still, you can't reject someone on that ground. Nor does it matter if she married a mafioso, and then divorced him (I have no reason to believe there is anything adverse about her long discarded husband).


Mitt Romney, of course, was asked on 60 Minutes if he had ever engaged in premarital sex, in spite of the principles of his religion. Is Sotomayor Catholic? If so, was did divorce violate the principles of her religion? Of course this is irrelevant. I am just pointing out the HYPOCRISY of the mainstream media and the left--not to mention the religious BIGOTRY.


All in all, Sotomayor's personal life seems so limited, and her private acitivities so limited, that she is not too likely to have many personal skeletons. With Obama's appointees, of course, you can never discount the possibility of not paying her taxes or some such thing. But it seems most likely to come down to her judicial philosophy and real intellectual depth (a Nixon appointee was rejected on the grounds that he was not intellectually "strong" enough).


As previously stated, I expect to oppose Sotomayor on those grounds, but will wait and seee if those initial quotes in the New York Times sotry were misleading or not.