As the scandal of ACORN erupts across our country proving once and for all that ACORN is a sleazy racket which has no problem with tax evasion or child prostitution, we might do ourselves well to remember that President Obama’s first Supreme Court appointee has ties to said organization.

The Washington Times July 2, 2009:

“Judge Sotomayor worked for PRLDEF in various capacities from 1980 until she became a federal judge in 1992, spending most of her time as a board member.”

“The documents, which the group’s lawyers have said include relevant information about Judge Sotomayor’s time there, also show the fund did legal work for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as ACORN. During the 2008 presidential election, ACORN came under fire after allegations of voter registration fraud.”

Great.

Today, the Wall Street Journal reports that Justice Sotomayor is falling right in line with her “community organization” past. How? By demonizing corporations, of course.

Sotomayor Issues Challenge to a Century of Corporate Law

“In her maiden Supreme Court appearance last week, Justice Sonia Sotomayor made a provocative comment that probed the foundations of corporate law.”

“During arguments in a campaign-finance case, the court’s majority conservatives seemed persuaded that corporations have broad First Amendment rights and that recent precedents upholding limits on corporate political spending should be overruled.”

“But Justice Sotomayor suggested the majority might have it all wrong — and that instead the court should reconsider the 19th century rulings that first afforded corporations the same rights flesh-and-blood people have.”

“I don’t want to draw too much from one comment,” says Todd Gaziano, director of the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the conservative Heritage Foundation. But it “doesn’t give me a lot of confidence that she respects the corporate form and the type of rights that it should be afforded.”

ACORN may be falling apart at the seams but they have an ally on the bench of the American Supreme Court. Justice Sotomayor sent her warning shot across America’s bow with this statement.

I wish I could give her the benefit of the doubt but I fear her tenure on the Supreme Court will be favorable to leftism of the same ilk as ACORN.

Anyone who opposed Sotomayor’s appointment was called “fanatical” and “racist” just like anyone who opposes Obama’s policies but at the end of the day, the facts speak for themselves.

We now have a Supreme Court Justice in Sotomayor who once worked with and supported a corrupt organization now being investigated for vote fraud in multiple states. And more recently for offering support to illegal immigration, human trafficking and the sex slavery of children.

The next time Obama supporters and the media (same difference) tell us we’re crazy to oppose an Obama decision we know in our gut to be wrong, perhaps we’ll trust our intuition and not the evening news.

More at Memeorandum.

1987: A Republican president nominates someone to the Supreme Court who has not made any questionable statements on race. How do the Democrats attack? By labeling the nominee as a racist.

2009: A Democrat president nominates someone to the Supreme Court who regularly uses language that is construed by many as racism. How do the Democrats attack? By labeling any opposition as racists.

We didn’t see this one coming. First, there was the “wise Latina” episode.

Then it became know that Sotomayor was part of a group that only allows women to join, a big no no for someone who wants to sit on the Supreme Court.

Now we find out that Judge Sotomayor was part of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund. Sounds innocent enough right? How about this…

“The new disclosures by PRLDEF catalog a wide range of discrimination lawsuits the group handled on behalf of Puerto Rican and other Hispanic minorities, including in the areas of voting, employment, housing and education.”

Beginning to sound familiar? Read on…

“The attorneys point to the organization’s opposition to Bork and its ties with the community organizing group ACORN _ embroiled in voter registration complaints _ as evidence that the group had a political agenda.”

“A summary of the group’s 1987 activities reflects that it worked with ACORN to represent low-income Puerto Rican families in East New York who were banding together to ensure affordable housing in their area.”

Remember when lefties were running around crying foul last fall and insisting that Obama had no ties to ACORN, something we now know was a load of BS?

I suppose it’s just a coincidence that Sotomayor has a link to ACORN. Just a big stinking coincidence.