As expected, President Barack Obama went far to the left to select, as his first Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, an Hispanic left-wing extremist. As Supreme Court watcher Tim O'Brien said this morning, Judge Sotomayor will be the most liberal justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Judge Sotomayor laughingly told an audience that we make policy from the bench which should satisfy the president's desire to have judges make their decisions based on empathy and not on the law. However, the symbol of justice in America is blind-folded which means that justice is blind and decisions by judges should be based on the law and not on emotions.

Right out of the box, contrary to the president's campaign promises -- to govern from the center, to reach out to his opponents, to establish a post-partisan presidency -- Obama has broken those promises and his Supreme Court selection is the latest example of his administration governing from the extreme left.

Judge Sotomayor, who has been an appeals court judge for about ten years on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, had a high profile role in an affirmative action case involving white firefighters who were passed over for promotion in favor of minority candidates who were less-trained.

In Ricci v. DeStefano, involving the New Haven, CT fire department, she ruled against the white firefighters. In an almost reverse racism statement, she made reference to the superiority of Hispanic women in making decisions on the court over white males citing empathy yet again. This is not exactly the kind of justice America needs on the Supreme Court right now. It would behoove the Senate to reject this clearly mediocre candidate.