Comeback: Empathy? Sir, I don't plan on being a cold-hearted judge.
posted by phil on Tuesday Jul 14, 2009 2:29 PM
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Re-Tweet-This: Wise Latina this, wise Latina that. Why don't they just call her uppity and get it over with?
posted by phil on Tuesday Jul 14, 2009 10:41 AM
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Copy-and-Paste: Don't legislate from the bench. Unless it's legislation we approve of.
In the controversial "white firefighters" case, Sotomayor was actually the non-activist law-interpreter that conservatives have been pushing for:
The question before the 2nd Circuit, Sotomayor said, was whether the city's decision was based on race or its understanding of what the law required it to do. The court ruled that it was based on the latter.(source)Based on established legal precedent, the 2nd Circuit decided that the city's decision was proper under established law.
It was just non-activism in a direction that conservatives disapprove of. In this case, it was affirmative action.
posted by phil on Tuesday Jul 14, 2009 10:32 AM
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Re-Tweet-This: On a question like affirmative action, you can't simply go back and try to ask what the Founders thought
That's from an interview with former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor about Sonia Sotomayor.
posted by phil on Tuesday Jun 30, 2009 5:39 PM
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