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Actually most of the members of the Supreme Court are the products of Affirmative Action of one sort or the other. Up until the 20th Century, Jews, Italians and Irish could not get into the elite law schools let alone be considered for the Federal Bench. So Alito, Scalia, Kennedy, Ginzburg, Kagan, and Brennen wouldn't have been on this Court a hundred years ago. Another product of Affrimative action is Justice Thomas who might not even had got into college if the South Carolina of his youth existed today. Thomas would have learned what his place was in American Southern society and accepted it. So Sonia Sotomayor is not alone in having benefited from our leveling of the Legal playing field.
His issue was with Justice Sotomayor's pointed remarks that Latinas were superior to white males.
That was a racist comment and you know it.
Can you imagine the uproar if a white male judge had said that he could make a better decision than a Latina?
You're right. I have no problem with a diverse SC or anything else but when remarks are made like this to imply they are superior due to their ethnic background and others are inferior that's not an appropriate remark to make from a public official.
Another product of Affrimative action is Justice Thomas who might not even had got into college if the South Carolina of his youth existed today. Thomas would have learned what his place was in American Southern society and accepted it. So Sonia Sotomayor is not alone in having benefited from our leveling of the Legal playing field.
I don't know if he would necessarily agree with you.
Even though he doesn't talk from the bench anymore, he did have this to say recently while speaking
in FL in Feb 2014:
My sadness is that we are probably today more race and difference-conscious than I was in the 1960s when I went to school. To my knowledge, I was the first Black kid in Savannah, Georgia, to go to a White school. Rarely did the issue of race come up,' Thomas said during a chapel service hosted by the nondenominational Christian university.
Now, name a day it doesn’t come up. Differences in race, differences in sex, somebody doesn’t look at you right, somebody says something. Everybody is sensitive. If I had been as sensitive as that in the 1960s, I’d still be in Savannah. Every person in this room has endured a slight. Every person. Somebody has said something that has hurt their feelings or did something to them — left them out.'
The worst I have been treated was by northern liberal elites. The absolute worst I have ever been treated," he said. "The worst things that have been done to me, the worst things that have been said about me, by northern liberal elites, not by the people of Savannah, Georgia."
When Harrier visits D.C., he is going to attend oral arguments hoping to be there the moment that Justice Thomas actually says something.
His written opinions and dissents are works of art.
How exciting! I really mean it
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