Posted on 06/22/2014 12:09:34 PM PDT by Steelfish
Justice Sonia Sotomayor Defends Affirmative Action
BY ROBERT BARNES June 22 Justice Sonia Sotomayor said she supports affirmative action in higher education because she believes that alternatives based on geographic or economic status don’t work to ensure a diverse student body.
Sotomayor has said race-conscious programs in the 1970s that opened Ivy League schools to minorities were essential to her rise from the Bronx public housing projects to her admission to Princeton and Yale Law School, where she excelled.
Sotomayor, the court’s first Latina, was asked by George Stephanopoulos in a segment taped for ABC’s “This Week” about programs that might increase diversity in higher education that would be “less fractious” than the use of race.
She said that other programs have not proved as successful in diversifying student bodies and that universities should be able to consider race and not just academic measurements.
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What else could she say ... “infirmative action” gave us obama, et al.
Her mental faculties and her existence there on the court is more than enough to tell me all I need to know about affirmative action.
Except that someone smart enough to be on the Supreme Court should know that two wrongs don't make a right.
Well, it’s a “wise Latina” who knows how she got her job. It certainly can’t be because she was the caliber of Judge Antonin Scalia or Chief Justice William Rehnquist, God rest his soul.
Certain unconstitutional laws are ok if the right groups support them.
Enter Sonia Sotomayor.
This isn't as much a defense of affirmative action as it is an indictment.
SO she thinks government should discriminate
That worked out so well every other time it was done, not
The questions that should have been asked:
What do you say to those people who were passed over?
Were you “affirmative action’d” onto the Federal courts, including the SC?
Why shouldn’t the SC be composed of the best legal minds?
Why is crime, violence, underachievement the greatest in “diverse” cities?
Sonia, but for the grace of affirmative action.
Once stupid, always stupid.
“people with IQs of 85”
They want to put ankle bracelets on ille—excuuuse me—”undocumented immigrants.”
It’s like Mike Judge had a crystal ball(s) when he produced the movie `Idiocracy.’
The fact is students with SAT scores below 1300 drop out at a far higher rate than students with higher scores. I don't even know if white students in 1300-1400 range can get into Ivy League schools.
LOL.....absolutely!
Sotomayor is the perfect example of affirmative action. In a competitive world, her abilities, intellect and experience would qualify her as a paralegal. With that said, there is nothing wrong with being a paralegal. However, a mental midget sitting on the Supreme Court has long term negative consequences to our republic.
And the repubpukes put sand in the Vaseline, bent over, and grabbed their knees...............Spit
Sonya, baby, if you needed emergency brain surgery, would you be happy to know that your surgeon and your anesthesiologist were unqualified affirmative action placeholders - much like yourself?
If anyone needs to prove the folly of legalized racism disingenuously labeled affirmative action, just mosey on down to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
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