Sotomayor 101

by Jill on 5.15.2009 · 6 comments

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Feministe » Sonia Sotomayor nominated for the Supreme Court: 5.26.2009 at 11:31 am

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1 Rebecca 5.15.2009 at 4:58 pm: NYT also had an article today in which Judge Sotomayor basically explains what we’ve been talking about around the blogs for a couple of weeks – that life experience as a woman or a member of a minority group is in itself a qualification.
2 William 5.15.2009 at 5:39 pm: I don’t care what her other qualifications are, she’s bad on the first amendment, bad on the fourth amendment, and thinks its perfectly OK to admit hearsay for a 115 month “sentence enhancement.” All she needs is a pro-life pedigree and she’d practically be another Scalia.
3 chava 5.26.2009 at 10:35 am: Well….here we go. I didn’t look at her too closely beforehand, where is she bad on the first & fourth amendments?

As for her being pro-life…she is Catholic, it isn’t out of the realm of possibility. Whether it effects her legal decisions is a different matter.
4 Jill 5.26.2009 at 11:15 am: She’s not always bad on the First Amendment; sometimes she’s quite good. I think William is referring to a case where Sotomayor’s 2nd Circuit panel held that a public school did not violate a student’s First Amendment rights when they suspended her for inappropriate comments she made on her LiveJournal (or some other website). It was a bad decision, but not her only one.
5 Jill 5.26.2009 at 11:26 am: *Not suspended. Disqualified from running for student government.