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We have a Supreme Court nominee who made statements about feeling kinship with members of similar ethnic background. One who went so far as to say that empathy with one's background was a part of a judge's decision-making process whenever cases came up that involved people of slimilar background.
Now imagine that a case came before this judge after appointment to the SCOTUS, and the judge overturned decades of established case law in order to rule with a person of similar ethnic background. Wouldn't that be outrageous? Wouldn't that get the conservatives up in arms? Wouldn't they be horrified at an act of judicial activism that showed racial bias?
Wouldn't they? Apparently not.
Samuel Alito, an Italian-American, said this at his confirmation hearing:
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When I get a case about discrimination, I have to think about people in my own family who suffered discrimination because of their ethnic background or because of religion or because of gender. And I do take that into account.
We have a Supreme Court nominee who made statements about feeling kinship with members of similar ethnic background. One who went so far as to say that empathy with one's background was a part of a judge's decision-making process whenever cases came up that involved people of slimilar background.
Now imagine that a case came before this judge after appointment to the SCOTUS, and the judge overturned decades of established case law in order to rule with a person of similar ethnic background. Wouldn't that be outrageous? Wouldn't that get the conservatives up in arms? Wouldn't they be horrified at an act of judicial activism that showed racial bias?
Wouldn't they? Apparently not.
Samuel Alito, an Italian-American, said this at his confirmation hearing:
We have a Supreme Court nominee who made statements about feeling kinship with members of similar ethnic background. One who went so far as to say that empathy with one's background was a part of a judge's decision-making process whenever cases came up that involved people of slimilar background.
Now imagine that a case came before this judge after appointment to the SCOTUS, and the judge overturned decades of established case law in order to rule with a person of similar ethnic background. Wouldn't that be outrageous? Wouldn't that get the conservatives up in arms? Wouldn't they be horrified at an act of judicial activism that showed racial bias?
Wouldn't they? Apparently not.
Samuel Alito, an Italian-American, said this at his confirmation hearing:
A white man in politics can't proclaim his whiteness without being guilty of some sort of racist hate crime.
Based upon the historical role of exerting one's whiteness, why would you be surprised? You folks who like to jump on this logical fallacy seem to dismiss , forget or at least think that the rest of us are stupid for not remembering the the historical context of such statements.
Nice way to sugarcoat it. Some of her comments have been blatantly racist. For example:
"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." -Sotomayor
Last edited by arctichomesteader; 07-16-2009 at 05:52 AM..
I don't want to hear what she says. I want to know how she's ruled. If she flaps her gums one way yet judged differently, I wouldn't have a problem with her. The only thing I appreciate with this go-'round with this nominee is no Senator Biden to ramble on about himself and baseball for excrutiating long periods of time, without asking a question.
We have a Supreme Court nominee who made statements about feeling kinship with members of similar ethnic background. One who went so far as to say that empathy with one's background was a part of a judge's decision-making process whenever cases came up that involved people of slimilar background.
Now imagine that a case came before this judge after appointment to the SCOTUS, and the judge overturned decades of established case law in order to rule with a person of similar ethnic background. Wouldn't that be outrageous? Wouldn't that get the conservatives up in arms? Wouldn't they be horrified at an act of judicial activism that showed racial bias?
Wouldn't they? Apparently not.
Samuel Alito, an Italian-American, said this at his confirmation hearing:
We have a Supreme Court nominee who made statements about feeling kinship with members of similar ethnic background. One who went so far as to say that empathy with one's background was a part of a judge's decision-making process whenever cases came up that involved people of slimilar background.
Now imagine that a case came before this judge after appointment to the SCOTUS, and the judge overturned decades of established case law in order to rule with a person of similar ethnic background. Wouldn't that be outrageous? Wouldn't that get the conservatives up in arms? Wouldn't they be horrified at an act of judicial activism that showed racial bias?
Wouldn't they? Apparently not.
Samuel Alito, an Italian-American, said this at his confirmation hearing:
I don't want to hear what she says. I want to know how she's ruled. If she flaps her gums one way yet judged differently, I wouldn't have a problem with her. The only thing I appreciate with this go-'round with this nominee is no Senator Biden to ramble on about himself and baseball for excrutiating long periods of time, without asking a question.
Well, now you've heard how Alito ruled. Aren't you going to speak out about it? There's more evidence now that he rules based on ethnicity than there is about Sonia Sotomayor. Wingnuts are calling her racist. Why not Alito?
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