Lesson: Just lie to get a Supreme Court seat

Remember Sonia Sotomayor's response to the question about gun rights? Why, she fully supports the 2nd amendment! One year ago it was not up to the courts to decide gun rights.
And:

SOTOMAYOR: Like you, I understand that how important the right to bear arms is to many, many Americans. In fact, one of my godchildren is a member of the NRA. And I have friends who hunt. I understand the individual right fully that the Supreme Court recognized in Heller."

Today? One year later? She RULES against gun rights for all Americans:

Justice Breyer wrote another dissent, which Justice Ginsburg and Justice Sotomayor joined in full.What’s interesting about that is it contradicts what Sonia Sotomayor said during her confirmation hearings just last year. In response to the question of whether it is settled that the Second Amendment secures an individual rights, Sotomayor told Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy, “Yes, sir.” 

Really? How does that square with the dissent? The one that said, “I can find nothing in the Second Amendment’s text, history, or underlying rationale … to protect the keeping and bearing arms for private self-defense purposes.” Although that statement only concerned whether the right to own a gun is fundamental, the dissent also said that the Court should consider overruling Heller altogether. 

Those statements are consistent with the decisions Sonia Sotomayor joined when she was an appeals judge on the Second Circuit. Those were the decisions that led defenders of the Second Amendment to oppose her confirmation to the Supreme Court. 

  If the people of America cannot trust the rule of law, the president of the United States or the words of a Supreme Court justice, what is left?
  This is why the grilling of Kagan is important. These people lie to get on the Supreme Court and then issue rulings that directly contradict their words during the vetting process.