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Coming out of the high court today, but i want to pick up with you just where our correspondent, alex, left off and that s with justice sotomayor s comments. now, we knew that breyer, kagan and sotomayor favored the measures, but sotomayor went so far as defending the policies by stating unproven medical facts. what is up with that? well, justice sotomayor should not be talking about issues like that because she is a judge and her job is to apply the law, whether it be the constitution or the federal statutory law, it is not her job or any of the justices job to engage in policy making and make good policy arguments and i think that that s just shows that, you know, justice sotomayor, who is known as really a liberal judicial activist is happy to engage in policy making from the bench. that s not the knob of the job of the judges, it s to the ....

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