Posted on 04/08/2017 7:41:53 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Tuesday’s Supreme Court ruling that Michigan voters had the right to ban racial preferences in university admissions didn’t sit well with the court’s self-described “Wise Latina,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Her 58-page-long dissent made clear that she’ll be the last line of defense for affirmative-action policies at the highest court in the land.
But a look at the dissent as well as her own history, makes clear that the lady doth protest too much. Immigrants and their children simply have no claim on affirmative action — if anyone does. To the contrary, these policies hurt their intended beneficiaries.
The court didn’t rule on the merits of affirmative action, but on whether voters can opt to ban its use in public universities. Sotomayor tried to do several things as she fought a rear-guard battle.
She sought to equate affirmative action with voting rights, which didn’t fly. More interestingly, she also vainly tried to read this policy into the Constitution, the better to save it from future challenges.
The Constitution, she wrote, “guarantees that the majority may not win by stacking the political process against minority groups permanently, forcing the minority alone to surmount unique obstacles in pursuit of its goals — here, educational diversity that cannot reasonably be accomplished through race-neutral measures.”
In other words, one of the highest Hispanics in the land argues that, without preference policies, minorities can’t hope to reach a proportionate participation in universities.
Can you imagine what reading this opinion would do to a young Puerto Rican or Mexican-American girl full of hopes about her own abilities? As Linda Chavez once put it, “Ultimately, entitlements based on their status as ‘victims’ rob Hispanics of real power.”
It’s heartening that by a 6-2 majority, the high court didn’t let such nonsense go unchallenged by the voters.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
True to form racist like the bastard who appointed her!
Wasn’t she on the board of La Raza when she was nominated for SC?
Seems like I remember reading that at the time.
Affermative action? You mean affermative selection!
And she is a living breathing dumkopf example of why affirmative action is demeaning and detrimental to the nation. She seems to believe that any set of words in the Constitution supports anything she thinks should exist. For her the Constitution is her.
Sotomayor is not a Justice or a Judge; she’s a leftist activist plant put there by the worst President in US history.
Anything, anything at all, coming from her must be suspect and likely dismissed as leftist BS. She is a radicalized leftist judge/justice.
Excellent answer.
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Jun 4, 2009 - Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor was a member of the National Council of La Raza for six years, according to her Senate ...
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Jun 15, 2009 - Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is a member of La Raza. That membership and her own statements have led to many challenges to ...
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May 29, 2009 - White House sought to soften remarks Sotomayor made in 2001 ... House spokesman slams ex-congressman’s comparison of La Raza to KKK
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May 14, 2009 - It was published in a 2002 issue of the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal ... Berkeley, School of Law, by appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor.
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Jun 8, 2016 - Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor gave a speech in 2001 where she said the sex ... La Raza Law Journal published the speech here.
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Thomas Jefferson and some other guys said it short and sweet:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.....
Sonia Sotomayor took 58 long dissenting pages to say she is ok with racism.
Extreme wordiness is always suspect.
Shame Gorsuch wasn’t able to give his two cents as well, 7-2 slap down for the Nitwit Latina.
A real piece of garbage
She’s a racist, has low character, and is not the brightest. Just like Obama. Her race and gender, and mindless left rubber stamp is why she’s on the bench. It shows you how low America has sunk.
Does she have only one seat on the court? It looks like she needs at least two! She and Juan Williams are consolation awards from Affirmative Action.
Does she have only one seat on the court? It looks like she needs at least two! She and Juan Williams are consolation awards from Affirmative Action.
Sotomayor is a useless benchwarmer.
College graduation rate for blacks is 42%, versus 62% for whites
http://www.jbhe.com/features/50_blackstudent_gradrates.html
How much of even that is “affirmative graduation” due to “affirmative grading”, I don’t know.
Matriculation rate and graduation rate do not equate. Being accepted to schools where they don’t have much of a chance leads to failure and frustration. Then probably bitterness and resentment.
Maybe we are better off that the Left is represented by a dunderhead than someone more able. She can vote but not persuade or effectively machinate.
Barack Obama was President
Anita Hill made it to Washington where she learned the hard way she was not really intellectual hot stuff
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