Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

September 10, 2009

Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama?s nominee to the Supreme Court, appears to be a hybrid authoritarian, combining liberal support for regulation and redistribution with the ?law and order? instincts of a conservative judge.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Sotomayor?s critics ?draw a picture of her as a zealous prosecutor ?prior to her appointment as a judge. A defense attorney who analyzed her rulings as an appellate judge concluded that ?she always seemed to be leaning toward the government,? upholding convictions even when evidence was illegally obtained.

Traditionally, conservative activist judges have been excessively deferential to the enforcement branches of government ? such as police and prosecutors. Liberal activist judges have been too eager to expand the regulatory and redistributionist elements of government ? such as federal agencies and other elements of the bureaucracy.

Neither of these approaches is acceptable to those who wish to see the Constitution strictly applied. The combination of both is disastrous.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.