re: #182 drcordell

Right. She is saying in her own words what Alito himself said at his own confirmation. That one can’t help but allow their personal history to affect their judgment, it’s unavoidable. Any judge claiming to be 100% impartial is lying, that is the point of what Alito and Sotomayor both said.

Now, back to what I stated earlier. If Sotomayor is a blatant racist, surely ONE of her 380+ rulings at the appellate level would reflect her racist attitude. Yet you fail to cite one single case with an example of her racism. Do you think Alito is a racist because of his comments regarding immigrants?

A 1999 dissent in a discrimination case in which a first-grader was transferred midyear to kindergarten, and subsequently alleged the school was indifferent to racial hostility: “Underlying this abrupt decisionmaking process, furthermore, was the crucial fact that” the boy “was the only black child in his classroom and one of the very few black students in the entire school. Reading the record in this light, a jury reasonably could conclude that the school did not give the black student an equal chance to succeed or fail. Contrary to the suggestion of the majority, such a conclusion would be based not ‘merely’ on a finding that the events in this case were ‘unusual,’ but on the inference, drawn from substantial circumstantial evidence, that they were tainted by race discrimination.”

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