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.
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Now they'll be reduced to writing inane Dissenting Opinions for the rest of their careers.
Mexicans are probably the Most Racist people on the Planet, why is this surprising to anyone
That’s right; when you take a black high school graduate qualified for a community college and insert him/her in a state school, and take one qualified for the state school and insert him/her into an Ivy League school, they are destined to fail - they are starting off with a huge handicap.
One of the problems with recruiting black cops is that as more and more departments require college degrees, few blacks that can genuinely earn one would want to work dealing with human garbage as many cops do. Here in NJ Hispanics have been unofficially dropped from the list of potential affirmative action hires as cops because there are plenty of them and they don’t need AA to get the jobs. Now only blacks and females are given the jobs “for free”...
Hope so.
Thanks for the info.
Thanks! I don’t know HOW I missed 0bama. Yeesh!
This woman’s name was Latrine, but she told the Sheriff of Rottingham that her family had changed it from $hithouse! So maybe she and Sotomayor are related?
Thanks for the pic, I always wondered who played this part in the movie.
Can you imagine! Of all the really qualified women in this country, we end up with this crap on the SCOTUS. And for that we can thank Clinton and Obola.
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