Posted on 04/23/2014 9:01:57 AM PDT by NOBO2012
Justice Sotomayor seemed to mock one of Chief Justice Robertss most memorable lines. In a 2007 decision that limited the use of race to achieve integration in public school systems, he wrote, The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.
On the contrary, the Wise Latina believes that the only way to end discrimination on the basis of race is to discriminate on the basis of race.
Lets examine the basis for her contention, beginning with Big Guys basis for social justice: empathy:
But its those five percent of the cases that really count. And in those five percent of the cases, what youve got to look at iswhat is in the justices heart. Whats their broader vision of what America should be.
And we need somebody whos got the heartthe empathyto recognize what its like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what its like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or oldand thats the criteria by which Ill be selecting my judges Barack Obama
Empathy: hard to define, butt youll know it when you see it.
In what can only be described as a blow to Big Guys empathy standard (or empathy canard depending on your point of view) the Supremes voted to uphold Michigans constitutional amendment that bans affirmative action in admissions to the states public universities. Wheres the empathy in striking down preferential treatment in higher education based on race?
Try walkin a mile in my shoes, bro.
Ill tell you where in the dissenting opinion expressed by the Wise Latina (I 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't lived that life.) thats where.
Speaking on behalf of herself and the Wise Jewess, Justice Ginsberg (and - if she hadnt had to recuse herself for having argued the governments case for Affirmative Action in her pre-Wise Lesbian days, Justice Kagan) the Wise Latina injected a wealth of empathy into her argument:
The court recognizes the wise ladies
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, filed a 58-page dissent and summarized it from the bench, signaling strong disagreement with the majority.
Justice Sotomayor wrote that Michigan voters "changed the basic rules of the political process in that state in a manner that uniquely disadvantaged racial minorities." WSJ
But Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in the longest, most passionate and most significant dissent of her career, said the Constitution required special vigilance in light of the history of slavery, Jim Crow and recent examples of discriminatory changes to state voting laws.
Her opinion, longer than the four other opinions combined, appeared to reflect her own experiences with affirmative action at Princeton and Yale Law School. I had been admitted to the Ivy League through a special door, she wrote in her best-selling memoir, My Beloved World. For years, she wrote, I lived the day-to-day reality of affirmative action. NYT
Two take-aways from those comments:
Wait what? Thats all there is?
The most interesting aspect of this story though is that weve officially reached the point where not only do words no longer mean what they originally meant, they now mean the exact opposite.
This analysis from NRO will help you understand:
Her opinion is legally illiterate and logically indefensible, and the still-young career of this self-described wise Latina on the Supreme Court already offers a case study in the moral and legal corrosion that inevitably results from elevating ethnic-identity politics over the law.
In a perfectly Orwellian dissenting opinion, which she read dramatically from the bench, Justice Sotomayor argued that the decision of the people of Michigan to end racial discrimination is itself an instance of racial discrimination and that the only way to mitigate such racial discrimination is through the mandatory maintenance of racial discrimination. In this opinion she was joined by Justice Ginsburg, with Justice Kagan recusing herself from the case. Justice Sotomayor argued that Michigans Proposal 2, which mandates race-neutral state policies, is the sort of legislation used to oppress minority groups. By outlawing racial discrimination, she argued, a majority of the Michigan electorate changed the basic rules of the political process in that State in a manner that uniquely disadvantaged racial minorities.
So, you see, racial neutrality is now racist. At least that explains why Republicans are all racists, butt I think it confuses things on other fronts. As they say, be sure to read the whole thing; its educational reading on how the Left contorts and transforms the meaning of words to their image and likeness. Hence things such as preferential treatment based on race are transformed from being not forbidden to compulsory.
I have much more to say on this subject, butt as Ive lost electric power and my battery is very low Im going to have to leave that up to all of you and try to locate my phone to post this before Im DOA. Carry on!
Posted from: Michelle Obamas Mirror
I tried to read her opinion but gave up when she somehow equated legacy admissions with white racism (as if people of color don’t have kids who will want to attend).
The rest just dissembles into catch phrases, talking points and a STRONG desire for reverse discrimination.
She is an idiot who just happens to know some Latin terms (but not how to apply them).
Of course Sotomayor favors Affirmative Action. She’d have never been appointed to her current post absent a defacto Affirmative Action policy in the White House and the Democrat-ruled Senate.
The Sodojerk was a leader in the Hispanic Klan, La Raza—The RACE.
What’s it take to get her off the USSC & when can we get started?
Race-based, sex-based, ethnic-origin-based preferences are wrong, illegal, and unconstitutional.
Doesn’t matter if they are ‘allowed’ by law or custom.
A supreme court justice who doesn’t know this isn’t fit to serve on the court.
“...and that’s the criteria...”
Those are the criteria, imbecile.
Sotomayor says that affirmative action opened a lot of doors for her. It gave us a blithering mediocrity on the Supreme Court, appointed by yet another blithering mediocrity in the White House, who was sold as the smartest guy in the room. Yet, simple grammar escapes him.
Impeachment, and it starts in the appropriate committee in the House of Representatives. In this case, that would be the House Judiciary Committee.
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