[Vision2020] Obama to Name Sotomayor as Supreme Court Pick

[Joe Campbell]

I'm not sure I agree but this is not such a horrible point she's making.

Joe Campbell

On May 28, 2009, at 9:13 PM, Chasuk <chasuk at gmail.com> wrote:

> To read Sotomayor's not-particularly-scandalous speech, click here:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/us/politics/15judge.text.html
>
> Note the title of her talk: "Raising the Bar: Latino and Latina
> Presence in the Judiciary and the Struggle for Representation."  This
> might give you some clue as to its topic.
>
> Here is a relevant quote:
>
> "I accept the proposition that, as Judge Resnik describes it, 'to
> judge is an exercise of power' and because as, another former law
> school classmate, Professor Martha Minnow of Harvard Law School,
> states 'there is no objective stance but only a series of perspectives
> - no neutrality, no escape from choice in judging,' I further accept
> that our experiences as women and people of color affect our
> decisions. The aspiration to impartiality is just that--it's an
> aspiration because it denies the fact that we are by our experiences
> making different choices than others."
>
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