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Posner on Sotomayor

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Walter L. Newton5/26/2009 2:11:36 pm PDT

re: #666 Charles

The number of cases reversed by the Supreme Court is not the same as her overall reversal rate for all cases. Too many people are taking this to mean that she’s been reversed in 80% of her decisions, and that’s simply not true.

But, if this woman is possibly going to be on the SC, it is interesting to see how many of her decisions were reversed by the SAME court she may be serving on.

Granted, not every one of her decisions have been reviewed by the SC, but the ones that made it that far, made it that far because someone thought that the original decision was wrong, and that a higher court needed to examine the outcome.

And in a good amount of the cases, she was reversed. That would make me think twice about her fairness and judicial smarts.