U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is an ethnicity-focused “wise Latina” who believes race and sex should factor into judicial decisions. The Washington Times agrees and stands firm against Sotomayor’s confirmation.
As the paper notes, the White House has tried and failed to reconciled Sotomayor’s statements, such as “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 who hasn’t lived that life.” The problem with the White House’s spin is that Sotomayor has made too many statements to keep up with. The record shows from the time she attended Princeton to now, Sotomayor has been consistent with her Latina-centered public comments:
The record proves that the judge meant exactly what she said in a 2001 speech: “… a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male.” She repeated that exact phrase in a speech she gave in 2003 at Seton Hall University, and she used the same words minus the “Latina” modifier in at least four other speeches between 1994 and 2000.
The New York Times reported on May 30 that Judge Sotomayor “shared the alarm of others in the group when the Supreme Court prohibited the use of quotas in university admissions in its 1978 decision Regents of the University of California v. Bakke.” In 2006, Judge Sotomayor ruled that currently imprisoned felons cannot be denied the right to vote if a disproportionate number of them are black or Latino, no matter how heinous their crimes. …Judge Sotomayor’s 2008 decision in Ricci v. DeStefano showed no empathy for the dyslexic and learning-disabled firefighter who gave up a second job to study for a promotion exam he ended up acing, only to be denied the promotion because he was white.
“If you look in the entire sweep of the essay that she wrote,” President Barack Obama explained, “what’s clear is that she simply was saying that her life experiences will give her information about the struggles and hardships that people are going through that will make her a good judge.”
As we’ve long suspected, Sotomayor’s focus on ethnicity plays a central role in her professional life. She is a proponent of racial preferences, which aren’t popular, despite what liberals may claim. Republicans should grill Sotomayor on her past statements and judicial decisions, as well as her present attitude about race. If they have the heart.
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