Sonia Sotomayor's Background Will Affect Her Judicial Decisions -- and That's a Good Thing

Our culture here is highly influenced by MEXICO and NOT Puerto Rico so I don't have much experience with Puerto Rican people in general.

She came to age during AFFIRMATIVE ACTION (like me) when minorities were given preference over equally or more qualified white applicants and often the institution or employer seeking a TOKEN employee would hire a minority person who was also a woman and find an excuse, including skewing polygraph exam results, to hire this minority person. So naturally, she would get a preference because she was born in the right time and the right place, the right ethnicity and the right gender. White women would miss out on this because all they had going on for them was their gender. Hispanic and African American men would miss out on this because all they had going on was their ethinicity or race.
Although she MAY have been talented on her own, I will never know.
I don't know how much the Puerto Ricans were involved in La Raza Unida which means the UNITED RACE but the joke is on them because there are many races in the Mexican and Latino culture and when they refer to themselves as chicanos, it really makes me laugh because to those of us who understand Spanish, it means the same thing as the n-word but these white liberal academics who don't get out into the Community or understand Spanish are the ones who used the term so THE JOKE IS ON THEM AND ANY HISPANIC WHO USES THIS WORD. My father hit me when I used it and then he told me what it meant.La Raza is all about REVERSE RACISM!
I HOPE that she will be just and fair.
In order to succeed in the white world, she had to learn to think white and so I don't think that race is an issue unless she is a La Raza Unida person... Then, I vote NO and I AM Hispanic and Native American, myself.

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Her story is why America is great. She grow up poor in a non English speaking household. Instead of sitting on a fat welfare ass in section 8 housing, she decided to work hard and make something of her life.

I appreciate the fact that she has put her career ahead of children. Feminist like to tell the half truth of "Only making 78% of a man's salary". What they fail to mention is the fact that they don't put in the same hours at work. Sotomayor made the choice to be the best. She didn't expect anyone to subsidize a hobby of child rearing.

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Every day in every way, they spiral further and further into the abyss of irrelevancy. To do anything as politically suicidal attempting to sabotage President Obama's nominee would only be further proof (as if any more were needed) that the Republicans are beyond psychotherapy and need to be seriously medicated for their own safety and ours.

The other day on television, Mitch McConnell (What would I do without you, Mitch?) was saying that the last thing the American people needed was a Supreme Court Justice setting judicial precedent via any preconceived political conviction. It's a good argument, one that begs the following question: Has it occurred to Senator McConnell that there are already four Right Wing extremists on that court? It's time to take a very slight turn towards the left. In fact it's long overdue. And while Judge Sotomayor's record does lean toward a liberal point-of-view, she can hardly be described as a fire-breathing lefty. Remember it was George H. W. Bush who on November 27, 1991 nominated her to hold a seat on the U.S District Court. What does that tell you?

Don't fall for the onslaught of propaganda that is about to be hurled at you that will portray her as a radical. Sonia Sotomayer, at best, is a wishy washy moderate. In fact, she's boring.

Truth be told, Eleanor Holmes Norton would have have been my first choice. Between you and me, I think that gal is the bee's knees! I'm just crazy about her!

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Mostly, school vouchers benefit catholic schools. In a Wisconsin case the SC (5-4) voted for school vouchers. One who should have voted against school vouchers was Sandra Day O'Connor. She along with Scalia (he voted for school vouchers) are both roman catholics. The new appointee is roman catholic. Future cases, where school voucher issues are taken all the way up to the SC, will be interesting.

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Let’s assume that the college scholarship Sotomayor received was the result of affirmative action, I have no way of knowing whether this was true. Her academic accomplishments and her life work speak for themselves. So if affirmative action gave someone an opportunity that would have been denied, because of race and gender according to KKK Rush, it sure worked out fine for America. Sotomayor will make a great Supreme Court Justice and the only way she will not be a Supreme Court Justice is if the uniter caves. Obama you better stand by your woman, after you went to all the trouble of sucking the racists out of the woodwork like cockroaches.

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The Supreme Court will have an Hispanic, and a female at that! YAAAAYYY!

Everyone ludicrously left giddily celebrates their latest ideological triumph, obliviously disregarding any thought of what's good for their country. Their race, creed, gender or quasi-gender is to be - in their minds - exalted. One might infer logically that the perfect Democrat is half black, half Hispanic, and - the only real choice left - homosexual or female.

Meanwhile, the nation's slide into the landfill of history continues unabated.

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I'll repeat what I commented on an article on finances, quoting Aristotle: "As a man is, so does the end appear to him." For me, this means that we see life from the perspective of our life environment - all that we've seen, all that we've experienced, all that we've done, all that we ARE. I'm happy that Sonia Sotemayor has experienced poverty and hardships in life, as well as great success. I'm sure she can see life as it really is better than most people.

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cnnpolitics.com just published an article about the supreme court moving towards catholic if sotomayor is appointed...

"Sotomayor would be part of court's Catholic shift..."

i wonder how this will affect women's right to choose?

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RE: Candidate Judge Sonia Sotomayor

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LaRaza appointment. This organization wants America for themselves. They care little about our nationhood or workers. They are self interested which makes me not want any appointment approved by them.

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She was appointed by GH Bush for a court promotion and then Clinton. She has been pushed along in the courts because of her race, religion, and elitism (Harvard and Yale). It is very much a political appointment to be a globalist and Neo Con.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
/Third_Way_(centrism)

A third way politican like Clinton and Blair (liars and crooks).

We do not need another Catholic on the Supreme Court. This is not diversity but a majority rule by the Vatican. It is a "packed Catholic court".

Ms. Sotomayor's politics may not be public but she is an oligarchy member...LaRaza, Catholic church, Yale and Harvard (Obama and Bush elite schools who get their friends jobs). I can tell you right now by these organizations what her politics are. She's there to make policy and laws for globalists and the Catholic church rule...thus fascism.

Six or Seven Supreme Court judges being Catholic is not acceptable since we are mostly Protestant (once again Catholic approve of fascism for their own agenda and control).

If diversity is so important (and why should it be when it comes to government of the people who are mostly non-minority) why not a black woman? Or a judge who went to a public university not a minority from the affirmative action to a elite university. These elite judges from Yale and Harvard ignore our Constitution and make their own laws today. Obama and Bush are typical of elite Yale and Harvard leaders.

Why not a mainline Protestant black woman judge graduating from a State University law school not good enough? What does that say to our children when mostly Yale and Harvard graduates get all the cream jobs? It says to me only Catholics or Evangelicals from Yale and Harvard get appointments in our government today. We have an oligarchy who rules.

Between Amnesty by DLC members of our party and this appointment, we can say Obama only thinks about Hispanic votes and his power not American justice and the Constitution. His appointments have all been shady characters so far. Why would this one be any different?

Shapiro of the Center for Constitutional Studies says she does not have any out standing writings on decisions, etc. She has not made a great impact. Why appoint this person when there are so many others more qualified judges in this country? It is clearly her religion and Hispanic background.

She will be ruling on cases which are "reverse discrimination" for Americans. Her politics cause ignores them.

News to the media, Congress and the President. We don't want to be joined with Mexico in one big union denying us our Constitution, democracy, and nationhood. It is treasonous.

What about an Asian American or Afro-American woman who have been denied a place on the Supreme Court?

Obama does not have the right to use the courts for his own political vote and agenda (not approved by the citizens in this country). He lied and betrayed us big time. We have too many "Kangaroo court judges" now.

Vote no to Judge Sonia Sotomayor. She is self interested and not the person we need on our court today.

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If you have a mind, intellect ego, body, senses and you indentify with all or part of the experiences that the entity has garnered, then almost all of your decisions and choices will contain bias, no matter what you say or convince yourself to the contrary.

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If you've wondered how the rethugs will attack President Obama's choice for Supreme Court justice, wonder no more. I heard one rethug hack (on MSNBC)state that "she's no intellectual heavyweight". As if anyone in the bush regime WAS. I can't stop laughing.

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Bottom line: Administer the law. No affirmative action outside of the law. No reverse discrimination. Part of the Supreme Court oath is (paraphrased): "not be a respecter of persons, rich or poor". The judiciary is not the place to be an activist that enacts policies and makes the law. We have two other branches of government whose responsibility is to make laws and govern. This is true for white males as it is for all genders, backgrounds and ethnicities

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she ducked the hard issues in the new haven fire dept case. qualified applicants passed over to hire black candidates who couldn't pass a test. this was bigotry and spitting on the equal protection clause. this woman reeks with hate and resentment. she will be another block in the downfall of Obama, the worst "costitutional law professor" there ever was.

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There would be nothing wrong with appointing a Latino judge to the highest court that openly favored her own people. She could provide needed help to millions of Spanish speaking Americans in their battle to escape poverty. No judge can be impartial, their minds have been slanted by personal experiences. Sotomayors past in the South Bronx has enhanced her judgement. She understands the righteous needs of the Hispanic underdog.

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This appointment is another evidence of our President's divine inspiration.
My theory is this: All Presidents of the US are members of the 144,000 kings and princes mentioned in the Bible book of Revelation, thus, not only can the President do no wrong at all, but the US will continue on until this number of 144,000 is filled by the Presidents of the country. God won't allow it to fail or fall apart.

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Only her experiences in life should have any influence over her ruling, this must be kept separate from her nationality. While some of her obstacles may have arisen from her nationality, the solutions certainly did not, as a matter of fact the solutions were a rejection altogether that people are different because of race or creed. As for the last comment, there is no difference between that fundamentalism and the same fundamentalism that brought about 9/11 and thousands of years of war in the middle east!

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"Each justice has their own identities, and these shape their judicial views. This seems to be controversial only if you aren't white and male.""

Yes Jill there is!!!!

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The fundamental social division is class, not race or gender by Patrick Martin, 28 May 2009, on the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS).

This linked article above focuses on the class issues relating to the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor.

"Totally obliterated in this flood of commentary is the most fundamental social category in American society: class. Sotomayor will go to the Supreme Court, not as the representative or advocate of Hispanics, women or the socially disadvantaged more generally, but as the representative of a definite social class at the top of American society—the financial aristocracy whose interests she and every other federal judge, and the entire capitalist state machine, loyally serve and defend."

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FYI from Wiki: Sonia's Roadblock? ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor

Employment Discrimination:

Sotomayor was a member of a Second Circuit panel in the high-profile case Ricci v. DeStefano that upheld the right of the City of New Haven to throw out its test for firefighters and start over with a new test, because the City believed the test had a `disparate impact' on minority firefighters. (No black firefighters qualified for promotion under the test, whereas some had qualified under tests used in previous years.) The City was concerned that minority firefighters might sue under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The City chose not to certify the test results and a lower court had previously upheld the City's right to do this. Several white firefighters who had passed the test, including the lead plaintiff who has dyslexia and had put much extra effort into studying, sued the City of New Haven, claiming that their rights were violated because the test was thrown out. After an appeal, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case April 2009, and a ruling has not yet been issued.

Clear evidence she is not going to tip the progressive scales in any way - a safe choice for Obama, after surviving a tough 1997-98 confirm for the FEDApealsCourt by stonewalling GOPers - but made it through with only a few GOP Senators dissenting on the Senate Judiciary Committee ... amazingly former New York Republican Senator Al D'Amato pushed the US GOP Senate leadership to bring Sotomayor's nomination to vote and was the driving force for a full floor yeah/or neah that confirmed her and he had been a full supporter of Sonia since 1992. So I would not expect much GOP stoppage this time (a few hagglers, Arlen Specter just switched parties (R to D), Orin Hatch (R) likes her ...) ... so she is `in like Flynn' ... they say ... after a few tough sessions like 97-98. If Obama gets another chance for SupCt Noms - it will be of her ilk, already tested federally, moderate and sometimes surprisingly of traditional conservative or even liberal cloth when the case dictates. Race matters not here or life experiences or pre-court background or insulin dependent diabetes. I have that, plus a neuromuscular disorder that puts me in a wheelchair once or twice a year - I'm handicapped ... let Obama impress me when he nominates a wheel chair bound judge of any race, color, creed, gender, religion or political philosophy (end of story for so-called CHANGE, CHANGE) ... like Bill Clinton said last year when out for Hillary in NH and SC ... `when is the political fairy tale gonna end?' Oh ... I forget he's racist ... raised in poverty on `a backwater ARK hilltown' by a single mom, no Dad in his life ever and under very bad family conditions at times ... not so conducive to a Rhodes Scholar who studied at Oxford and raised ARK as Governor from ashes to one of the largest economic recovery states seen since the Carolinas. Maybe Big BarryO is saving that nomination to the high-court for his wife (the current SecOfState ... after she leaves the WH in late 2011 or early 2012 and defeats Mr. Obama soundly in the primaries like she did in 2008 and has the party nomination taken away again by BigDemFatCats (who wanta win the WH at all costs), but again we're just being racist again suggesting that - especially when critiquing BarryObama2Bush morphing ...

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