I generally support the idea of nominating a Latina woman to the U.S. Supreme Court, but not Judge Sonia Sotomayor. She is so biased; she should not be confirmed, for ten reasons:

10) SOTOMAYOR: ADMITS MAKING ACTIVIST POLICY FROM THE BENCH

In a 2005 student panel discussion at Duke University, Sotomayor said the "Court of Appeals is where policy is made. As a judicial activist, she jokingly admits "making policy" from the bench, based on feelings or empathy or judicial precedent, not laws passed by Congress, and so she assumes the power of legislature, to make policy, legislating from the bench.

9) SOTOMAYOR: PRO-ABORTION-SUPPORTS ROE V. WADE

Sotomayor stands squarely in the camp of supporting and upholding the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized child killing across America and cost 50,000,000 children their lives. Since I was born to a single mom who courageously gave me up for adoption, and I was adopted at age three by a Christian family, I'm passionately pro-life.

8) SOTOMAYOR: ANTI-GUN, ANTI-WEAPON, ANTI- 2nd AMENDMENT

In her ruling to allow government to ban privately owned weapons belonging to New York citizens, Sonia Sotomayor wrote in Maloney v. Cuomo: "The Second Amendment applies only to limitations the federal government seeks to impose on this right, not upon that of the state." The New York State Assembly was fully authorized to ban nunchuks, or seize any and all of your weapons, according to Sotomayor's anti-liberty reasoning.

7) SOTOMAYOR: ANTI-TEN COMMANDMENTS, BUT PRO-MUSLIM?

ACLJ Attorney Jay Sekulow said of Sotomayor: "She is left in judicial philosophy, ranges much further left than Justice Ginsburg or Justice Souter . I just had a case where the Court was unanimous, it was involving the 10 commandments issue, and the court was unanimous 9 to 0.” Meanwhile she ruled one Muslim prisoner had a right to receive the Eid ul Fitr feast which is a Muslim holiday meal in his prison cell, and another Muslim prisoner had a right to access a Muslim chaplain, which is fine if she treats other faiths equally.

6) SOTOMAYOR: SAVIOR OF THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF WOMEN

NOW President Kim Gandy quickly endorsed Sotomayor, saying: "This morning we will celebrate, and this afternoon NOW will launch our campaign to ensure the swift confirmation of the next Supreme Court Justice."

5) SOTOMAYOR: OVERRULED BY SUPREME COURT

Sotomayor had 5 decisions reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court, 3 of which have been reversed. One of these was her aggressive pro-environmental anti-energy decision; another was her aggressive pro-litigation anti-business decision, which was overturned unanimously. Chief Justice Roberts once stated that her method of reading the statute in question "flies in the face of the statutory language."

4) SOTOMAYOR: FAVORITISM BY RACE OR GENDER

Sotomayor told the Berkeley Law School: "Our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life." She denied promotion for the white firefighters who performed well on the exam, and gave minorities who failed the exam favorable consideration toward promotion. Sotomayor promotes aggressive affirmative action promoting race or gender, not merit.

3) SOTOMAYOR: FAVORS INTERNATIONAL LAW OVER AMERICAN LAW

Opposing a U.S. Congressional bill that would forbid activist judges from citing international law instead of applying American law in their decisions, Sotomayor wrote the controversial introduction for The International Judge, a book that promotes, in her words, "developing an international rule of law and institution-building" and idealizes the "pioneers who work tirelessly to bring these institutions from their incipience to their maturity."

2) SOTOMAYOR: INFLATED OPINION OF SELF

Her own former clerk, liberal Jeffrey Rosen, now legal affairs editor for The New Republic, said she has "an inflated opinion of herself." Another clerk who worked on the 2nd Circuit also stated "she has an inflated opinion of herself, and is domineering during oral arguments, but her questions aren't penetrating and don't get to the heart of the issue."

1) SOTOMAYOR: BASEBALL BIAS FOR NEW YORK YANKEES

When ruling to end the 1995 baseball strike, she sided with the player's union against team owners who sought parity among all teams with a talent-sharing salary cap. Instead Sotomayor created bias in favor of rich teams who can afford to buy up all the good free agents. So the New York Yankees hogged 4 titles and 6 pennants in the 8 years after her ruling, with payrolls averaging three times more then other team salaries. Sotomayor created that competitive imbalance.

The role of a jurist in our democracy is to apply the law evenhandedly, despite their own feelings or personal or political preferences. The role of a judge is to act as a neutral umpire of the law, calling balls and strikes fairly without regard to one's personal preferences or political views.