"I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion [as a judge] than a white male who hasn't lived that life".Sonia Sotomayor (Supreme Court Nominee)
I have no doubt that Judge Sotomayor will make it onto the court, and I do not think this is a bad thing. She is very very smart, unlike some others before her, and a life time appointment tends to coax out the gifted person encased in expedient ambition.
In an earlier post I questioned Sotomayor's no-look decision on the New Haven firefighters, although I now believe she saw it as a no-win situation. Had she sided with the white firefighters, she would have kissed any future high court nomination goodbye. If she wrote an opinion, as is customary, telling why she sided with the City, she would have had to lay out some questionable constitutional footwork, again damning her chance of the high court. By passing the case along an appeal path, in silence, she replaced the no-win with a nolo. The call-out heat from appellate Judge Jose Cabranes was the smallest price to pay.
As for the 'wise Latina' quote, I thought she was saying that her unique experiences, nay hardships, provided a competitive advantage to making good decisions vis-a-vis your run-of-the-mill white guy, who's only lived on a paved street. This may be crude, but it says more about her turning adversity into opportunity, than it does about today's white male. Of course, nothing precludes a white guy, on hard times, from learning a useful thing or two as well.
Bright lights do bring, crack she will not!
James C. Collier
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