Sotomayer is considered Obama’s front-runner for the Supreme Court
Here’s an excerpt from a October 2001 speech she gave at Berkeley:
Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, a possibility I abhor less or discount less than my colleague Judge Cedarbaum, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. Justice O’Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases…I am also not so sure that I agree with the statement. First, as Professor [Martha] Minnow has noted, there can never be a universal definition of wise. Second, I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.
Hmmmm… what “richness of experience?” Affirmative action? Entitlement? She sounds like Michelle Obama to me. Obviously a hispanic woman is a politically smart pick… and the right hispanic woman deserves as much consideration as anyone else… but this quote alone should disqualify her. I think the dems behavior against Clarence Thomas might come back to haunt them as I can see the leftist msm trying to spin confirmation hearings as republicans being anti-hispanic.
PS - Don’t Sotomayer’s comments rise to the level of racial and gender (anti-white, anti-male) hate-speach? And therefore a crime under the new federal hate crimes legislation? We demand action!
