Which Supreme Court Nominee Said...?

Above, Sara Ramirez would play Sonia Sotomayor, and Anthony Scalia

would play Justice Danny Devito in a so-far totally imaginary movie

U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor is still being attacked by right-wingers, outraged that she dared mention her non-white, immigrant, feminist background as important qualities in who she is as judge and as a person.

They say this means she is likely to drag totally weird nonsense into her Supreme Court deliberations. She cannot be trusted! they are saying. She cannot be trusted to stick to the letter of the law, as enunciated by the Founding Fathers, with their frilly clothes, total lack of hygiene, their slave-owning, and unfamiliarity with the Internet, aeroplanes, cars, computers, sanitation, et al. She'll bring outside factors such as her race and womany-ness into the Supreme Court!

So it's interesting to note that square-as-lego Justice Samuel Alito, beloved of conservatives, said the following during his confirmation hearing in January 2006, making himself sound rather Sotomayor-ish:

And that’s why I went into that in my opening statement. Because when a case comes before me involving, let’s say, someone who is an immigrant — and we get an awful lot of immigration cases and naturalization cases — I can’t help but think of my own ancestors, because it wasn’t that long ago when they were in that position.

When I get a case about discrimination, I have to think about people in my own family who suffered discrimination because of their ethnic background or because of religion or because of gender. And I do take that into account.

The slow, agonizing death of conservatism is a delicious sight to watch. Worth a glance is this imagined line-up of actors cast to play Sotomayor and the rest in Sonia: the Movie!