Obama Chooses Sonia Sotomayer For Supreme Court

Another Sotomayer quote making the rounds: "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male."

George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley says that Obama's pick lacks "intellectual depth":


Furthermore, Sotomayer is getting a lot of attention because she is Hispanic and would be the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice. I think that a person's race or gender should have nothing at all to do with picking a Supreme Court nominee. But since this element seems to be getting a lot of attention, and was presumably part of the reason she was picked, it is important to not allow the Dems to paint Republican opposition as somehow being anti-Latino. For it is the Democrats themselves that are the ones with a recently documented history of "borking" a judicial nominee because "he is Latino." A November 7, 2001 staff memo to Senator Durbin said quite clearly that Miguel Estrada was "especially dangerous, because he has a minimal paper trail, he is Latino, and the White House seems to be grooming him for a Supreme Court appointment" (emphasis added) .

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