Over on substack, progressive journalist Chris Geidner, who sent me his post without my requesting it, opines that Sotomayor’s standard-issue white male bigotry claim was fair and true, but that her apology was good strategy. He believes that it was prudent for Sotomayor not to alienate Kavanaugh who, though a conservative, has shown the capability (that Sotomayor rarely has demonstrated) to take a position that isn’t lock-step with partisan cant. “It’s easy to see her apology as a selfless move — outside of any personal beliefs — aimed at maintaining her relationship with Kavanaugh for “people who have no other voice.“

I have news for both Sonia and Geidner: that metaphorical train has left the station. As a genuine professional (unlike Sotomayor), Kavanaugh was bound to formally accept the apology, but he’s been listening to Sotomayor’s non-legal, touchy-feely arguments and and her equally feelz-infected dissents for years now. Because he’s a real, credentialed, literate judge and not a DEI rubber-stamp for progressive ideology, the fact that Sotomayor issued a pat and (according to Geitner, her fanboy) apology after calling him an elitist, clueless, unfeeling judge isn’t going to make Kavanaugh more likely to accept her poor legal reasoning.

Greitner isn’t a lawyer, so of course he doesn’t notice, or doesn’t care, that Kavanaugh’s analysis in the case at issue is sound, well-supported, and necessary. He can’t even conceive of such a conclusion. “There is no doubting that she was correct in her assessment,” he says of Sotomayor’s attack on Justice Kavanaugh. That’s funny: I not only doubt it, I’m certain that the “privilege” insult has no place in jurisprudence. Greitner also quotes progressive blog Balls & Strikes, which said, “[S]ingling out a colleague for having no idea what life is like for people who are not double Yalies is as close as a Supreme Court Justice gets to publicly suggesting that another Supreme Court justice is full of shit.“

Sotomayor suggesting that Kavanaugh is “full of shit” is like a Yankee utility infielder telling Aaron Judge that he needs to work on his hitting. Balls & Strikes is so bad and biased I don’t even check it any more. Justices of the Supreme Court aren’t in the big marble building to be persuaded by empathy or pity or love or hate or social engineering or diversity, equity and inclusion…those are non-ethical considerations that lawmakers are supposed to be considering. The Supreme Court interprets the laws and applies the Constitution.

Everything else is just static. Sotomayor barely pays attention to anything but the static. Kavanaugh wrote that the illegal immigration wave that the Democrats tried to drown the nation in required reasonable tactics to address, including using factors such as locale, employment choices ethnicity and language to identify potential violators. Good and citizens loyal citizens accept temporary inconveniences in the best interests of the nation and society. Naturally the Left screamed “Racism!,” and Sotomayor sees her job on the Court to protect illegals. Geitner thinks that’s just wonderful.