I guess buffoonery is why Bush appointed her and Republican Al D'Amato praised her. Here's the speech: Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, a possibility I abhor less or discount less than my colleague Judge Cedarbaum, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. Justice O'Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases. I am not so sure Justice O'Connor is the author of that line since Professor Resnik attributes that line to Supreme Court Justice Coyle. I am also not so sure that I agree with the statement. First, as Professor Martha Minnow has noted, there can never be a universal definition of wise. Second, 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. Let us not forget that wise men like Oliver Wendell Holmes and Justice Cardozo voted on cases which upheld both sex and race discrimination in our society. Until 1972, no Supreme Court case ever upheld the claim of a woman in a gender discrimination case. I, like Professor Carter, believe that we should not be so myopic as to believe that others of different experiences or backgrounds are incapable of understanding the values and needs of people from a different group. Many are so capable. As Judge Cedarbaum pointed out to me, nine white men on the Supreme Court in the past have done so on many occasions and on many issues including Brown. However, to understand takes time and effort, something that not all people are willing to give. For others, their experiences limit their ability to understand the experiences of others. Other simply do not care. Hence, one must accept the proposition that a difference there will be by the presence of women and people of color on the bench. Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see. My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/us/politics/15judge.text.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
yeah, oh boy, that clears it up for me... except that she still believes her conclusions would be better. All the above is doing is trying to say that she has different views, she thinks they are 'better', and in order to justify her imposing those views on the judiciary she writes about how everyone does that. Really, now that the left is gaining power, they want to justify bias because it will be their bias. Before it was about equality, now it is about they are better. Isn't the idea supposed be lady justice at least trying to wear a blindfold, not celebrating that her genetics and culture would reach 'better' conclusions?
Give it up, guys. She used the words "I would hope that." Either that or Bush appointed a secret racist.
You know very well why Bush appointed her. Because of an arrangement that allowed Sen Moinyhan to pick every other district court nominee in NY. Bush agreed to it to get judges confirmed.
What kind of arrangement would that be, where Bush appoints someone who (you claim) is an obvious racist in exchange for ALSO giving away nominees?
I knew a teacher in Southern California. She was ALL CONCERNED about the poor oppressed Mexicans in her shitty part of town. They were complaining that the PTA meetings didn't have interpreters. They got them interpreters. Then the Mexicans were able to get elected to office in the PTA and they started having the meetings in Spanish without interpreters... about that same time the Legislature got rules passed for bilingual education and the teacher wound up out of a job.. not making this up... when they say "La Raza", it's in a VERY XENOPHOBIC sense.. they are very xenophobic, and they hate blacks too... outside of that, and the laundry on the fence, and the shitty houses with shitty cars parked in the front yards and the shitty kids with the graffiti, and the 60% illiteracy rate in Mexico.. wow, I really want to see them succeed! No, really, I'm concerned about their plight...