re: #294 wrenchwench

re: #250 Occasional Reader

It sounds like you object to her admission that there is something to strive to put aside.

From the speech in the NYT:

I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate.

When, exactly, are a judge’s prejudices “appropriate”, in rendering a decision in a case?

Sotomayor is asserting that they can be.

Do you agree?