Posted on 04/22/2014 5:49:15 PM PDT by Mandingo Conservative
Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s fierce defense of the affirmative action efforts like the ones that helped move her from a Bronx housing project to the upper echelons of American law found renewed voice Tuesday in an impassioned dissent that accused colleagues of trying to “wish away” racial inequality — and drew a tart response from Chief Justice John G. Roberts
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Past racial inequalities aren’t remedied by racist policies.
My former partner went to high school with Judge Sotomayor. He said she was no great intellect and never should have been accepted at Princeton. Top undergraduate? I doubt it. And she knew the Ivy schools by name as did everyone.
Racism is an ugly thing, Your Honor.
You ought not to engage in it.
Brevity is the soul of wit. ----WS
The President of the United States is the prime example of why Affirmative Action is a failure.
The Post Turtle-in-Chief
Looks like the “Wise Latina” is a racist witch. But then that is why Obama chose her. He wanted someone after his own heart.
Affirmative Action is un-American and inherently unconstitutional because it denies equal protection under the law to citizens not of a “protected” class.
“So... she didn’t get where she is on the basis of talent? Makes sense.”
Faking undeserved Racial credentials worked for Elizabeth Warren. Look where she’s at now.
So Justice Sotomayor and POS Barnes, apparently to you it is not about the content of the character. It is all about the color of the skin.
And you presume to call us conservatives racist? /spit
Justice, justice?
If you want to be equal, smarten up and earn it!
Was trying to explain in the car to the wife that Sonia and her ilk believe we must discriminate in order to be non-discriminatory.
She could not understand. Finally convinced her she wasn’t nuts, they are.
“To disagree with the dissent’s views on the costs and benefits of racial preferences is not to ‘wish away, rather than confront’ racial inequality,” Roberts wrote.
“People can disagree in good faith on this issue, but it similarly does more harm than good to question the openness and candor of those on either side of the debate.”
TART????
Hardly, but then that is Roberts so what do you expect. Soto-Mayor needs to be impeached. Her perspective of the Constitution, Bill of Rights and Civil Rights is as distorted and sick as Obama’s and Holder’s.
Odd. I’ve always felt that it was affirmative action that was trying to wish away racial inequality.
Actually, there was a very great deal of truth in the stereotypes of Irish immigrants held by many Americans. They were the underclass of their day, and suffered from most of the pathologies of today’s underclass.
That they worked their way out of this mess is a tribute to them. Especially to their women and clergy. But making assumptions about what the Irish of 1850 were really like based on the Irish of today is just silly.
I highly recommend this article: How Dagger John Saved New York’s Irish http://www.city-journal.org/html/7_2_a2.html
The saddest thing about today’s underclass is that they have no leaders who encourage them to do the same. White liberals and their own “civil rights leaders” just encourage them to blame others and wallow in their despair.
I think a lot of the lawyers who got into college because of youknowwhat are incompetant....Lawyering only requires brass balls and a big mouth to be really really successful like the Johnny Cochrans of the world....
But I think that the real problem is that Sotomayor doesn't want low-information citizens to find out that it is the states, not the Supreme Court or any other branches of the federal government, who uniquely have the constitutional Article V power to ratify new amendments to the Constitution which would enumerate racial protections.
In fact, the states ratified the 15th Amendment to expressly protect voting rights on the basis of race.
So what Justice Sotomayor needs to do if she really wants to limit racial discriminaton on additional issues within the framework of the Constitution, as opposed to twisting the arms of her colleagues to wrongly legislate such rights from the bench, is the following.
Justice Sotomayor needs to work with both state and federal lawmakers to proprose additional anti-racial discirimation amendments to the Constitution to the states for ratification. And if the states chose to ratify her amendments then the states will have less power to discriminate on the basis of race and Sotomayor will be a hero.
This isn’t the first and it won’t be the last time this broad is all the way “me, me, me”. Her nomination and approval are and were big-time mistakes. And they will be mistakes for the next 35 years.
Not that her patrons on the Left care.
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