Judge Sotomayor is right: Ethnic heritage can affect judgement

[Anonymous]

In her speech, Judge Sotomayor questioned the famous notion — often invoked by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her retired Supreme Court colleague, Sandra Day O’Connor — that a wise old man and a wise old woman would reach the same conclusion when deciding cases.

“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,” said Judge Sotomayor.

I believe being a Latina woman may be the single most deciding factor that President Obama picked her to be on the Supreme Court. President Bush attempted the same thing by nominating Miguel Estrada to the D.C. Circuit Court. But he faced serious opposition from the democrats. Estrada withdrew his name from further consideration after twenty-eight months of waiting. "In July, 2010, in follow-up to her promise to Senator Graham, judge Kagan wrote a letter expressing her belief in Estrada's "superlative" qualifications for appointment to "any federal court," whether to the federal appellate or to the U.S. Supreme Court." So why he was opposed so fiercely? It's racial politics.

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Our life experiences, the experiences of those close to us, no matter what race, have an effect on our points of view. This is no different for a judge, congressman, president or mom down the street, we are all human. The assumption is that people like judges can put their perceptions aside, but it gets blurry when those life experiences are part of the reason they are in their seat of power. I don't have the answer. I don't think DT is completely wrong in his opinion but I don't think he's completely right.

[Anonymous]

Troll score = 0

Ethnic diversity (as well as any sort of diversity on SCOTUS, such as sexual, religious, SES, age, etc) increases SCOTUS's ability to avoid bias by providing 9 (ahem, SHOULD be 9) exceptional minds who don't all think the same way.

If a plurality of opinions didn't make the court smarter, than SCOTUS would be one person, wouldn't it?

You are a really bad troll.

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Anonymous wrote:

Love that his mouth is literally an asshole in this comic.

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Anonymous wrote:

LOL!! Nailed it!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Troll score = 0

Ethnic diversity (as well as any sort of diversity on SCOTUS, such as sexual, religious, SES, age, etc) increases SCOTUS's ability to avoid bias by providing 9 (ahem, SHOULD be 9) exceptional minds who don't all think the same way.

If a plurality of opinions didn't make the court smarter, than SCOTUS would be one person, wouldn't it?

You are a really bad troll.

You just reaffirmed the thesis that ethnic background can cause biased judgement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Troll score = 0

Ethnic diversity (as well as any sort of diversity on SCOTUS, such as sexual, religious, SES, age, etc) increases SCOTUS's ability to avoid bias by providing 9 (ahem, SHOULD be 9) exceptional minds who don't all think the same way.

If a plurality of opinions didn't make the court smarter, than SCOTUS would be one person, wouldn't it?

You are a really bad troll.

You just reaffirmed the thesis that ethnic background can cause biased judgement.

Logic failure! Diversity avoids bias, dummy. Or do you think that white male judge who only gave the white male rapist a 6-month sentence was totally cool? Oh, you're a DT supporter, so obviously you're white, so yeah, diversity's bad for you since it decreases your privilege.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Love that his mouth is literally an asshole in this comic.

Except in real life, his is hanging open most of the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Troll score = 0

Ethnic diversity (as well as any sort of diversity on SCOTUS, such as sexual, religious, SES, age, etc) increases SCOTUS's ability to avoid bias by providing 9 (ahem, SHOULD be 9) exceptional minds who don't all think the same way.

If a plurality of opinions didn't make the court smarter, than SCOTUS would be one person, wouldn't it?

You are a really bad troll.

You just reaffirmed the thesis that ethnic background can cause biased judgement.

Shut up, troll. "Bias" means an unfair act stemming from prejudice. It is possible to have a different ethnic background and not be biased.

[Anonymous]

Two weeks ago liberals attack Trump because all his picks are white males question their ability to unbiased based on ethnicity

This week, they attack Trump because he questions a judges ability to be unbiased because of ethnicity

[Anonymous]

I love when "bias" is defined as "any viewpoint that doesn't agree with my white, male viewpoint."

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Two weeks ago liberals attack Trump because all his picks are white males question their ability to unbiased based on ethnicity

This week, they attack Trump because he questions a judges ability to be unbiased because of ethnicity

They weren't upset his picks could not be "unbiased" bc they were white. They were bad picks and the fact that they were all white highlights that Trump's circle focuses on a very limited subset of the population -- he's blind to the talents of our diverse nation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Two weeks ago liberals attack Trump because all his picks are white males question their ability to unbiased based on ethnicity

This week, they attack Trump because he questions a judges ability to be unbiased because of ethnicity

So you would have no problem if Hilary nominated nobody but white women for the supreme court? Most of us like to see ethnic, gender and religious diversity that reflects our nation's heterogeneous makeup.