A person's background should not influence their decisions.

[Wetzelbill]

That's the Right's argument against Sotomayor.

Honestly, how stupid is that?

It's not even worth thinking about normally except I see this treated like it's a viable argument.

I have never seen anything more ridiculous and childish than politics. I'd say it's a giant sandbox but I wouldn't want to insult children by comparing them to politicians and the punditocracy.

[RDANGELO]

1. Thats right. They are all robots,

interpreting the constitution like a scanner reading a bar code.

[Coyote_Bandit]

2. However they expect

that someone from a religious background will in fact use that background to influence their decisions. Frickin hypocrites.

[kestrel91316]

3. Everyone's background and life experiences AND formal education

influences their thinking, and therefore their decisions. We have some sort of problem with this? That our Supreme Court justices are human beings?