• In 5 years as a District Judge and 11 years as a judge on the Second Circuit, she’s had 7 decisions that were reviewed by the Supreme Court. 6 were overturned. The 7th was affirmed, but the court specifically rejected (unanimously) her reasoning.
   
• Sonia Sotomayor believes the courts can make policy rather than be impartial arbiters on questions of law.  Here’s what she said at Duke University Law School in 2005:

All of the Legal Defense Funds out there—they’re looking for people with Court of Appeals experience. Because it is—Court of Appeals is where policy is made. And I know, and I know, that this is on tape, and I should never say that because we don’t “make law,” I know. [Audience laughter] Okay, I know. I know. I’m not promoting it, and I’m not advocating it. . . . [Audience laughter]

• She has stated her belief that it’s appropriate for judges to consider their “experiences as women and people of color,” which she thinks should “affect our decisions.”
   
• In a lecture she was quoted as saying “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.”
   
• All the extremist pro-abortion organizations (such as the National Abortion Rights Action League, NOW and other extremist groups) are strongly supporting Judge Sotomayor.  Nan Aron of the ultra-left Alliance for Justice, for example, assures the far-left that Judge Sotomayor has “been through an initial vetting and fits into the criteria that we believe should be the standard for any Supreme Court Justice.”
   
• At a rally in Ohio during the recent presidential campaign, candidate Obama said he "wants people on the bench who have enough empathy, enough feeling, for what ordinary people are going through. We need somebody who's got the heart -- the empathy -- to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old -- and that's the criteria by which I'll be selecting my judges."
   
• Her most telling decision is the notorious Ricci v. DeStefano decision. In it, Sotomayor sided with the City of New Haven when they denied firefighter promotions based on an exam whose results did not yield the “correct” racial mix of successful candidates.  Sotomayor’s colleague José Cabranes -- a liberal Democrat – ripped Sotomayor’s decision and the Supreme Court reversed the ruling.  In fact, Sonia Sotomayor is one of the most reversed Appellate Court judges in the country!
   
• She is a member of LaRaza (The Race), a militant Hispanic separatist group that advocated the return of vast swaths of the Southwest to Mexico.