Reuters: Supreme Court overrules Obama nominee in race bias case. Conservative critics seized on the decision, authored by Justice Anthony Kennedy, to demonstrate that Sotomayor was “out of sync” with mainstream legal thinking.
I’m not sure how the Sotomayor decision was out of sync with “mainstream” legal thinking. Her decision may have been out of sync with conservative legal thinking. Mainstream? Nah. After all, Ricci v. DeStefano was a 5-4 decision, meaning 44% of the U.S. Supreme Court agreed with Sotomayor. If you want to find someone that is really out of sync with mainstream legal thinking, take a look at Safford Unified School District #1 v. Redding, an 8-1 decision. If 89% of the justices on the US Supreme Court think one way, I think that line of thinking constitutes mainstream legal thinking. In a case that gave new meaning to Perverted Justice, Justice Thomas curiously was not troubled (in a Constitutional sense) with school administrators strip searching a teenage girl.
I am humored by America’s latest misguided foray: the sudden embrace of Mir-Hossein Mousavi. I’m not too sure how Mousavi managed to seduce America. Perhaps, it’s the proverb that the enemy of my enemy (in this case Mahmoud Admadinejad) is my friend, nevermind that this same line of logic led America to bed Saddam Hussein in an effort to counter the influence of Iran. We all know how that dream date ended up…in a cacophony of bitter recriminations. As typical of all bad break-ups, the squabbling couple ended up fighting over their sundry possessions.
GB: I want my WMDs back.
SH: Rummy told me that they were mine.
GB: Do you want me to come over?
SH: I don’t have them any more.
GB: I’ll find them. You can’t hide my WMDs from me.
SH: Remember your ex, Iran? I used them on her.
GB: I’m going to tear your place apart and find them.
So sad. Anyways, back to Iran. Instead of letting the Iranians sort out their internal affairs, the misguided Republican leadership feel a need to send warm fuzzies to Mousavi.
It’s not about us.
The Iranians need to figure out this election by themselves. They need to forge their own path and uncover an Iranian solution to their conflict. WIthout Obama. Without the GOP. Without us.
It’s not about us.
For whatever reason, Americans believe that speaking out about the Iranian elections and showing solidarity with their fellow Mousavites is a “good thing.” Seriously, do the Iranians care about our unrequited love for their green revolution? Are they hypnotized by the erotic beauty of our green-colored Twitter avatars in the faded glow of night’s light?
It’s not about us.
I suspect that the Iranians would prefer America NOT to care because when our nation does care, we certainly have a strange way of exhibiting our affections, such as by propping up pro-Western dictators and undermining less than friendly elected leaders. Sure, we can plead that this time is different, but our credibility is pretty much shot at this point. Nothing looks more like a CIA-inspired plot than when America starts visibly backing a foreign political leader. Leave the Iranians alone. Don’t co-opt and corrupt their movement and make it something that it is not.
It’s not about us.
