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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

The Sonia Sotomayor nomination:

Please take the time to read Rich's post Empathy Need Not Apply for the Supreme Court. I remember Justice Robert's baseball analogy and thinking how perfect it was to explain what a judges' role is on the courts. Like the baseball analogy, an umpire makes calls based on the rules of the game-not by a person's ethnicity, up-bringing, rich or poor, etc. The determination of innocence or guilt is to be made without bias or prejudice and the blindfolded statue of Lady Justice is the symbol of that.

1 comment:

Rich said...

Thanks Trish. It's nice to see a fellow Bronx person succeed. Unfortunately that's where the success of this nominee ends. She is not qualified based on her statements of using her latino experience to judge cases. Her racism toward white men has been expressed and should eliminate her from consideration. Imagine Roberts saying his white male background would be much better suited to judge than a Puerto Rican woman. He would not be a Justice...