Sotomayor, rather than the arrogant description of herself as “a wise Latina,” is as dumb as a fencepost.
I can’t verify this myself but I heard someone who knew the law say Sotomayor almost never has legal justifications and precedents to cite in her opinions. Rather they are her off the cuff personal opinions based on her own prejudice and emotions.
As I said, I can’t back that up but it looks like it’s true.
This is from a source I can’t stand, NPR but has good arguments against biased judges like her:
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2009/05/sotomayors_wise_latina_line_ma.html
“....I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”
From Stuart Taylor in the National Journal:
Indeed, unless Sotomayor believes that Latina women also make better judges than Latino men, and also better than African-American men and women, her basic proposition seems to be that white males (with some exceptions, she noted) are inferior to all other groups in the qualities that make for a good jurist.
Any prominent white male would be instantly and properly banished from polite society as a racist and a sexist for making an analogous claim of ethnic and gender superiority or inferiority.
Imagine the reaction if someone had unearthed in 2005 a speech in which then-Judge Samuel Alito had asserted, for example: “I would hope that a white male with the richness of his traditional American values would reach a better conclusion than a Latina woman who hasn’t lived that life” — and had proceeded to speak of “inherent physiological or cultural differences.”
I went to Harvard Law and have many friends who clerked on SCOTUS.
They’ve all told me that Sotomayor is the dumbest justice that has been on the Court in decades.
She’s also an outright racist. She basically laughed at the New Haven Fire Fighters case when she was a federal judge, from what i remember. A case based in reverse discrimination which SCOTUS ruled in favor of in 2013, ironically when she was a member of SCOTUS
Awwww, c’mon, man...
Why you wanna go on an’ insult decent, upstanding, straight-grained, Main Street American fence posts that way?
Reverse discrimination is okay, according to liberals. I still remember MLK and his I have a dream speech.