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| Written by Brent Deitrich |
| Tuesday, 26 May 2009 14:27 |
 President Obama's pick to fill the soon-to-be-vacated Supreme Court seat, Sonia Sotomayor, had this to say about the ability of a latino judge to make better decisions than a caucasian: "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion [as a judge] than a white male who hasn't lived that life." -- Judge Sonia Sotomayor, in her Judge Mario G. Olmos Law and Cultural Diversity Lecture at the University of California (Berkeley) School of Law in 2001 Can you imagine the backlash if a white nominee would have made the same statement regarding himself vs. a latino woman? The response from the MMM would be deafening. Sotomayor also referred to the cardinal duty of judges to be impartial as a mere "aspiration because it denies the fact that we are by our experiences making different choices than others." And she suggested that "inherent physiological or cultural differences" may help explain why "our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging." More HopeandChange™ from the never-ending Obama campaign. |
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