re: #200 Walter L. Newton

I’d be lying if I said I was familiar with any aspect of the case you referenced. But upon reading the excerpt, I’d say there isn’t enough information there to know either way. The case in question was a case directly related to accusations of racism in public schools. Without knowing anything about the underlying evidence, the fact that she ruled in favor of the black plaintiff really doesn’t tell us much about Sotomayor.

There are plenty of anti-segregation laws on the books. Sotomayor ruling that race discrimination occurred according to the guidelines laid out by the law doesn’t make her an “activist.” If anything it simply makes her a constructionist. If you have an issue with anti-discrimination laws, that’s not Sotomayor’s fault.