Posted on 06/04/2009 10:22:04 PM PDT by pissant
In speech after speech over the years, Judge Sonia Sotomayor has returned to the themes of diversity, struggle, heritage and alienation that have both powered and complicated her nomination to the Supreme Court.
She has lamented the dearth of Hispanics on the federal bench. She has exhorted young people to value immigration. She has mulled over the “deeply confused image” America has of its own racial identity. And she has used on more than one occasion a version of the “wise Latina” line that she has spent much of this week trying to explain.
Dozens of her speeches released by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday underscore the dynamics that have defined her case for the court. As President Obama’s nominee to replace Justice David H. Souter, Judge Sotomayor would be the first Hispanic and third woman to serve on the Supreme Court, distinctions that have generated much excitement. But her discussion of ethnicity and gender issues has provided fodder for critics who call her a judicial activist.
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She is the David Duke of the left: a quota queen and open borders nut.
And awfully arrogant for having the IQ of a brick.
In ten years, you will be arrested and imprisoned for having posted that hateful comment.
Struggle? Didn’t she go to private schools? How much of a struggle is that?
LaRaza with a foothold on the Supreme Court. Just sad.
WTF does that mean?
Any misguided Senator who is a member of the opposition who votes to fast track “Sonja Sotomajor” should face a race
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