Not surprisingly, President Racist has picked a fellow racist for the SCOTUS. Sonia Sotomayor, a federal appellate court judge, recently made a decision in the Ricci v. DeStefano case that favored racial preferences against white men who scored well on an aptitude test for promotion in the New Haven fire department.
Read how she thinks that being a woman and an hispanic makes her a better judge:
"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
The above assertion and the rest of a remarkable speech to a Hispanic group by Sotomayor -- widely touted as a possible Obama nominee to the Supreme Court -- has drawn very little attention in the mainstream media since it was quoted deep inside The New York Times on May 15.
It deserves more scrutiny, because apart from Sotomayor's Supreme Court prospects, her thinking is representative of the Democratic Party's powerful identity-politics wing.
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."
I wonder if any journalists, or any of the senators in the confirmation hearings, will ask Sonia why, if the USA is such a horrible place for hispanics, so many hispanics are going to great effort to come here? Don't hold your breath.
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