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Sotomayor, Unplugged (supports racial preferences)
Wall Street Journal ^ | FEBRUARY 4, 2011 | COLLIN LEVY

Posted on 02/05/2011 5:23:45 AM PST by reaganaut1

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor drew attention to her racial politics this week during a speech at the University of Chicago Law School, where she took issue with the positions of some of her colleagues on the bench.

Since her confirmation hearings, in which she had to explain her previous assertion that a wise Latina woman "would more often than not reach a better conclusion" than a white man in the same position, Justice Sotomayor has typically been more guarded in her public comments. But at the student forum, she criticized Chief Justice John Roberts's position in a 2007 case about whether public school admissions could be race-conscious to achieve diversity (Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1).

Writing for the court, Justice Roberts said that "the way to stop discriminating on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race." Justice Sotomayor told U of C students that that formula is "too simple" for her. "I don't borrow Chief Justice Roberts's description of what colorblindness is," she said. "Our society is too complex to use that kind of analysis." She also told students that, contrary to fellow Justice Antonin Scalia, she was "not sure" whether determining the original intent of the Constitution was the most important consideration in deciding a case.

Justice Sotomayor also talked about being the first Hispanic woman on the Supreme Court. "To the extent my presence has given people of color a sense of belonging with the court, then I have made a difference," she said. The justice said that she doesn't let her racial identity affect her judgment in cases but is convinced that others pre-judge her. "People have views of me and expectations of me that are based on stereotypes," she said.

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To: reaganaut1

Sotomayer’s who being is tied into her racial identity. She is NOT a full person. This society will not survive such touchy-feely thought. A system of law can not just be “whatever feels right today”.


21 posted on 02/05/2011 5:56:45 AM PST by Clock King (Ellisworth Toohey was right: My head's gonna explode.)
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To: Freddd
Obama and congress working together and no Supreme court or Federal judges, to hold them accountable with our Constitutional restraints on government. Isn’t that a dictatorship?

I heard a Bolshecrat analyst claim that if it passes Congress and the President signs it it is Constitutional. With that attitude who needs a Supreme Court to determine what is Constitutional. The rule of law has turn to the whim of man. Until, DumBO is in prison for what he did to the Chrysler bondholders there is no rule of law.

22 posted on 02/05/2011 6:07:16 AM PST by depressed in 06 (The only thing the ZerO administration is competent at is bad ideas.)
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To: reaganaut1

Idiot woman.


23 posted on 02/05/2011 6:10:47 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion is the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Psycho_Bunny

A moron with a lifetime appointment to destroy our Constitution.


24 posted on 02/05/2011 6:19:03 AM PST by SC_Pete
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To: reaganaut1

If I could I would ask her which doctor she wants performing brain surgery on her, the qualified one or the PC one.


25 posted on 02/05/2011 6:19:35 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
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To: reaganaut1

Weak, foolish republicans put her in the Supreme Court.

We will live to regret their weakness.


26 posted on 02/05/2011 6:26:40 AM PST by Iron Munro ("Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy." -- Ron Paul)
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To: reaganaut1

Justice Sotomayor also talked about being the first Hispanic woman on the Supreme Court.......

....The justice said that she doesn’t let her racial identity affect her judgment in cases but is convinced that others pre-judge her
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AH maybe because you make an issue of the fact that you are “Hispanic” etc

and when has Hispanic been equated to “color”

Maybe you can get away with “minority” but the first “Hispanics” in the New World were considered white men and they were from Europe...

If your ancestors were from Spain then they were considered white...

If your ancestors were Central or South American Indians and “people of color” then they were not Hispanic at all...


27 posted on 02/05/2011 6:29:12 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: reaganaut1

Wasn’t she Barry’s personal eligibility lawyer?


28 posted on 02/05/2011 6:40:57 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: reaganaut1
do I really have to say it???

29 posted on 02/05/2011 7:33:27 AM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: depressed in 06
...if it passes Congress and the President signs it it is Constitutional.

I have not heard this progressive mantra in a public forum. It has, however, been insinuated.

30 posted on 02/05/2011 8:18:34 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (For love of Sarah, our country and the American Way of Life.)
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To: Psycho_Bunny

“The woman is a moron.”

She is, but it is a refreshing change that instead of some hillbilly Klansman saying blacks & hispanics are inferior we now have a Puerto Rican woman shouting it loud & clear; there is no other meaning to be taken from the “racial preferences” debate.


31 posted on 02/05/2011 8:27:23 AM PST by kearnyirish2
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To: Tennessee Nana

One of the problems that will eventually doom racial preferences is the fact the former president Fox of Mexico (6’+ tall, white as Ivory soap) is considered “Hispanic” in terms of college admission, racial quotas for civil service (or private industry, now that this is legislated there as well via threat of lawsuits), etc. This, combined with the fact that “Hispanics” now outnumber blacks in the US population, has taken some of the fire out of the debate; if twenty firefighter positions have to be held for “other”, and the top twenty scores go to Hispanics and/or white women, then they’ll have to go back to square one.


32 posted on 02/05/2011 8:32:23 AM PST by kearnyirish2
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

A wise Latina wouldn’t stoop to using the term “wise Latina”.


33 posted on 02/05/2011 8:34:48 AM PST by kearnyirish2
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To: reaganaut1
Sotomayor, Unplugged (supports racial preferences)

And this is a surprise? Too many whites are either naive, sheltered or plain stupid.

34 posted on 02/05/2011 8:39:56 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: kearnyirish2

Because of junk like that for many years now on government forms when given a choice of ...

white
black
hispanic
Chinese/Asian
Pacific Islander
etc

I have chosen Pacific Islander

I was born in New Zealand...

:)


35 posted on 02/05/2011 8:46:04 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: kearnyirish2

so what if my skin is lily white and my ancestors for 100s of years have been European...

French, Dutch, English, Scot, Irish

I’m a Pacific Islander...


36 posted on 02/05/2011 8:48:08 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: bert

Punta in Spanish.


37 posted on 02/05/2011 8:53:17 AM PST by jmacusa (Two wrongs don't make a right. But they can make it interesting.)
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To: Tennessee Nana

They’ve already been through that in court with a South African white; he lost (apparently not “African” enough).

Good luck with that; if you don’t mind my asking, why would a Kiwi live here?


38 posted on 02/05/2011 9:01:57 AM PST by kearnyirish2
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To: reaganaut1
"To the extent my presence has given people of color a sense of belonging with the court, then I have made a difference," she said.

So it in not because of what she has achieved, it if because of what she is.

This is supposed to be about equality of opportunity. Not legislated outcomes.

39 posted on 02/05/2011 9:31:02 AM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: reaganaut1
she was "not sure" whether determining the original intent of the Constitution was the most important consideration in deciding a case.

Yes she is. She is sure it is *not*. The most important thing is to advance the progressive agenda toward a more centrally-planned and controlled wealth redistribution utopia, with Wise Latinas and other Marxists being the cannibalistic Morlocks, and conservatives playing the role of the delicious Eloy.

We all knew this as soon as she was nominated by Pharaoh.


Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.

40 posted on 02/05/2011 9:31:47 AM PST by The Comedian (There are no unbiased media outlets. Journalists ARE combatants.)
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