A leopard doesn't change its stripes

So said the noted philosopher Emmitt Smith.

No surprise, then, that new Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's first ruling was to vote to give a stay of execution to a hit man whose guilt was not questioned by anybody, including his lawyer or himself.

As to those of you gullible enough to wonder if the "real" Sotomayor was the hard left judicial activist of her past record or the "transparently absurd" (Wendy Long's words) law and order moderate of her confirmation hearing...well, that didn't take long now did it?