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Dissenting Judge Kim Wardlaw said the law punishes constitutionally protected expression and "eliminates the only means by which day laborers can communicate their availability for employment."

Wardlaw, Kim McLane

Born 1954 in San Francisco, CA

Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U. S. District Court, Central District of California
Nominated by William J. Clinton on August 10, 1995, to a seat vacated by David V. Kenyon; Confirmed by the Senate on December 22, 1995, and received commission on December 26, 1995. Service terminated on August 3, 1998, due to appointment to another judicial position.

Judge, U. S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Nominated by William J. Clinton on January 27, 1998, to a seat vacated by J. Clifford Wallace; Confirmed by the Senate on July 31, 1998, and received commission on August 3, 1998.

Education:
University of California, Los Angeles, A.B., 1976
University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, J.D., 1979

Professional Career:
Law clerk, Hon. William P. Gray, U.S. District Court, Central District of California, 1979-1980
Private practice, Los Angeles, California, 1980-1995
Member, Justice Team I, Department of Justice, Presidential Transition, 1992-1993
Member, Mayoral Transition Committee, Los Angeles Mayor-elect Richard Riordan, 1993

Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic

Gender: Female

Let's examine that statement very carefully: "Dissenting Judge Kim Wardlaw said the law punishes constitutionally protected expression and "eliminates the only means by which day laborers can communicate their availability for employment.""

Asking for a job is "constitutionally protected" so that part's OK, but "only means" necessarily limits Hispanics to walking out into traffic.

It's like this woman (an Hispanic herself) thinks Hispanics are not capable of making signs, passing leaflets, speaking outloud without the whiz of passing vehicles in their ears, and so on.

This is NUTS. The woman is crazy. She didn't give 2 seconds thought to what she said.

If this is the best analysis available in the Hispanic community they are in real trouble ~ they'll be nothing but hewers of wood and drawers of water for the rest of their days ~ for everybody else. Deuteronomy 29:11 ~ covers this situation quite nicely.

Dissenting Judge Kim Wardlaw said the law punishes constitutionally protected expression and "eliminates the only means by which day laborers can communicate their availability for employment."

Yeah, 'cause obviously they can't hand out leaflets, talk to pedestrian, or canvass door-to-door (as the clear-thinking justices noted), or post on Craigslist like zillions of other people seeking work do. Nope, flagging down passing cars is the "only" way they can possibly communicate their availability for employment.

Ms. Wardlaw must have been an affirmative action admit to UCLA law school, because she sure didn't get in based on her critical thinking skills.