Leading law enforcement and criminal justice officials joined Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) in a press conference Tuesday to endorse the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Sotomayor will “prosecute the guilty” and “protect the innocent,” said Joseph Cassilly, President of the National District Attorneys Association (NDAA).
“We’re not looking for any reassurance that she will be pro law enforcement in all her decisions,” assured John Adler, President of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association. “We only ask and fully expect that she remain loyal to the Rule of Law,” and not succumb to the “self-righteous bullying of special interest groups,” he explained.
Despite the controversy surrounding Sotomayor’s overturned rulings in New York’s Second District Court of Appeals and questions about her allegedly biased judgments, Sen. Leahy urged his fellow legislators, and the public at large, to “show respect for [the] third branch of government” and its nominee.
U.S. Law Enforcement Officials Support Judge Sotomayor’s Nomination
Leading law enforcement and criminal justice officials joined Senate
Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) in a press
conference Tuesday to endorse the confirmation of Judge Sonia
Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Sotomayor will “prosecute the guilty” and “protect the innocent,” said
Joseph Cassilly, President of the National District Attorneys
Association (NDAA).
“We’re not looking for any reassurance that she will be pro law
enforcement in all her decisions,” assured John Adler, President of
the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association. “We only ask and
fully expect that she remain loyal to the Rule of Law,” and not
succumb to the “self-righteous bullying of special interest groups,”
he explained.
Despite the controversy surrounding Sotomayor’s overturned rulings in
New York’s Second District Court of Appeals and questions about her
allegedly biased judgments, Sen. Leahy urged his fellow legislators,
and the public at large, to “show respect for [the] third branch of
government” and its nominee.