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Ma'am;...I disagree...The question is not whether she can be impartial...The question is whether she has the great good sense to see justice, and move ever closer to it... We follow the constitution...The constitution is our great faith...But faith without works is dead...The constitution must be made to work, and this ultimately means judging the constitution and not only judging by it...The thing must work for the living, and it is not enough that it once worked for the dead, if ever it did work for them, considering that their fondest dream has led to our nightmare... Now, it is easy enough to judge... Knowledge is judgement, said Immanual Kant; and we all must decide... Do you know if this place called America is working???If it is working for you, does that mean it is working for the guy down the street, the black, the woman, the child??? Everyone is saying just the opposite; that it does not work, and some blame the fact that we do not hold to the constitution, and some recognize that we cannot recapture the spirit of it, which is the spirit of this commonwealth... I think enlightened judges are not enough to fix the problems of representative government that is no longer representative....Since so many want the courts to get out of the way of majority rule; then ask: Shall the minority have any rights the majority are obligated to respect??? Passing all problems over to the court is what we have too long done...The court is never representative, and is stuck in its form which denies even the right of justices to seek justice...But justice is our life's work, and the denial of rights is no part of the work of enlightened government... So if it were me in the black; I would judge the constitution by the preamble where is clearly stated the goals for which this government was made...And then I would toss out the whole thing following that point... Let us once more make a constitution...Let us keep the same just goals, and build a government to recognize and defend rights... Let individuals and institutions attack rights, and say no government is worth having or paying for if it offers no defense of right...Thanks...Sweeney