Three stars is probably an unusually high rating from me, given the liberal dingbat president nominating a seemingly liberal Supreme Court nominee. But, the courts have become as politicized as any other governmental body, in dangerous contradiction to the design of our country's system of government.
Today, the make-up of the Supreme Court consists of four conservative "strict constructionists" in Thomas, Scalia, Alito and Roberts who attempt to maintain the original (or constructionist) views of its framers/writers, in interpreting today's cases. With David Souter gone, there are three wild-eyed liberals (Ginsburg, Stevens and Breyer) who see everything through a European/progressive prism and a moderate (Kennedy)who can and does go either way depending on the case. I personally like Sotomayor and am confident she will be approved by a shamefully partisan, wild-eyed liberal activist majority in the Senate, and she probably should be. She has said some silly things in the past to ingratiate herself to other wild-eyed left-wingers but seems to be pretty level-headed and thoughtful.
I believe she will be a disappointment to Obama, much more heady and less activist than he believes her to be and, therefore, a solid intellectual choice, who will be tough enough to withstand the avalanche of criticism levelled at her by the daily kos and other anarchist blogger conglomerations (the Huffington Post and the NY Times come to mind) early in her term.
