In her speech, Judge Sotomayor questioned the famous notion \u2014 often invoked by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her retired Supreme Court colleague, Sandra Day O\u2019Connor \u2014 that a wise old man and a wise old woman would reach the same conclusion when deciding cases.\u201cI 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\u2019t lived that life,\u201d said Judge Sotomayor, who is now considered to be near the top of President Obama\u2019s list of potential Supreme Court nominees.<\/p>\n
Her remarks, at the annual Judge Mario G. Olmos Law and Cultural Diversity Lecture at the University of California, Berkeley, were not the only instance in which she has publicly described her view of judging in terms that could provoke sharp questioning in a confirmation hearing.<\/p>\n
This month, for example, a video surfaced of Judge Sotomayor asserting in 2005 that a \u201ccourt of appeals is where policy is made.\u201d She then immediately adds: \u201cAnd I know \u2014 I know this is on tape, and I should never say that because we don\u2019t make law. I know. O.K. I know. I\u2019m not promoting it. I\u2019m not advocating it. I\u2019m \u2014 you know.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I would hope that a wise conservative guy with the richness of his experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who takes anything said at\u00a0 Berkeley seriously, who hasn\u2019t lived that life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I would hope that a wise White descendant of north-woods white trash with the richness of his experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a New York Times reporter who hasn\u2019t lived that life. Oh, hell – it’s like potato chips.\u00a0 Once you start, you can’t stop. Sotomayor’s comment (“I would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}