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Sotomayor 101

By Jill on 5.15.2009

Great article here detailing many of her most important decisions and views. Check it out.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Jill 5.26.2009 at 11:26 am | *

    *Not suspended. Disqualified from running for student government.

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