For Sotomayor, law isn't the issue

Barack Obama's Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor set an unprecedented low for the court today.

"In an otherwise dry opinion, Justice Sotomayor introduced one new and politically charged term into the Supreme Court lexicon.

Justice Sotomayor’s opinion in the case, Mohawk Industries v. Carpenter, No. 08-678, marked the first use of the term 'undocumented immigrant,' according to a legal database. The term 'illegal immigrant' has appeared in a dozen decisions."

The precedent of the Supreme Court is to say "illegal immigrants" whereas the politically correct parlance of the far left uses "undocumented immigrants" or sometimes "undocumented workers." Calling a person "illegal" -- even if their first act in this country was to break the law crossing its border -- doesn't show enough empathy.

Sotomayor's other notable decision on the Supreme Court has been to vote to take up the case of Jason Getsy, an Ohio hitman who opened fire on a businessman and his mother, killing both. Getsy had been sentenced to death by an Ohio court and had appealed his verdict to the Supreme Court. His trial had been fair and by the book, but Sotomayor evidently decided that the homicidal hitman deserved another chance.