Sotomayor Debate Puts Life Experiences on the Stand
From the 1880s until about 2000, said Harvard law professor and Supreme Court historian Mark Tushnet, the idea that a judge's background would influence how he or she approached cases — and that this was desirable — was conventional wisdom. The court for years even followed a kind of enforced diversity, drawing justices from the geographic regions that captured some of the country's biggest disagreements, with plantation owners in the South, ... Full Story »
Posted by J Sinclaire
Affirmative action poisons the lives of minorities since no one trusts their acheivements. Obviously Sotomayor is an extreme lefty and unless we want to be ruled by unelected ideologues in black robes we don't want her on the court.