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Posner on Sotomayor

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loppyd5/26/2009 12:17:35 pm PDT

re: #162 Flyers1974

I’m still trying to understand why her rate of reversal, in and of itself, is important. If one is conservative, wouldn’t you want an appellate judge to render conservative opinions? And if the SC were liberal, wouldn’t that judge’s opinions have a higher reversal rate? Would you want that judge to stop rendering conservative opinions to avoid the high reversal rate?

No! She was reversed in several cases for misinterpreting the law.