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Sotomayor: Too Many Catholics, Jews, on the Supreme Court
« on: April 10, 2016, 06:42:48 PM »
Sotomayor: Too Many Catholics, Jews, on the Supreme Court

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Sotomayor: Too Many Catholics, Jews, on the Supreme Court

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the nation’s highest court needs more diversity of personal backgrounds and professional experience, speaking as a vacancy has refocused attention on the court’s makeup.

During a talk Friday at Brooklyn Law School, Sotomayor didn’t mention the nomination of Judge Merrick Garland, who is highly respected but wouldn’t add racial, religious, or educational diversity to the high court. But Sotomayor, the court’s first Latina justice, said “it is important that we have greater diversity on the Supreme Court” and in the legal profession.

“I, for one, do think there is a disadvantage from having (five) Catholics, three Jews, everyone from an Ivy League school,” several justices from New York City and no one who practiced criminal defense law outside white-collar settings, Sotomayor told the law school audience.

Sotomayor and some of her colleagues have said before that the high court could benefit from more diversity, but her remarks Friday come in the fraught context of a nomination in unusual limbo.

Since conservative Justice Antonin Scalia’s January death left Democratic President Barack Obama with the chance to fill a seat that could shift the court’s ideological balance, Senate Republicans have said they will not consider confirming anyone named before the November presidential election.

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A wise Latina??  Or just another bigot? 
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Re: Sotomayor: Too Many Catholics, Jews, on the Supreme Court
« Reply #1 on: April 10, 2016, 06:44:29 PM »
I suspect this thread will go to the DUst bin of history soon.  Get it while it's not!!
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Re: Sotomayor: Too Many Catholics, Jews, on the Supreme Court
« Reply #2 on: April 10, 2016, 07:49:19 PM »
Well, let's take a look here.

Sotomeyer's ostensibly white, ostensibly Catholic, apparently from New York and apparently from an Ivy League law school who apparently practiced prosecution of clean white-collar crime (as compared with the nitty-gritty of defending dregs of society).

So.....what's stopping her from resigning, so as to make room for someone different?
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Re: Sotomayor: Too Many Catholics, Jews, on the Supreme Court
« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2016, 08:17:31 PM »
Now let us put the shoe on the other foot dummies.  Let us say that Scalia or Thomas said that.  We both know the outrage on the dump would be enormous. 

Selective outrage.  The dummies forte. 
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Re: Sotomayor: Too Many Catholics, Jews, on the Supreme Court
« Reply #4 on: April 10, 2016, 08:19:37 PM »
If you ask me, there are too many stupid ass Latinas on the Supreme Court.
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Re: Sotomayor: Too Many Catholics, Jews, on the Supreme Court
« Reply #5 on: April 10, 2016, 08:19:56 PM »
She sounds pretty racist if you ask me.
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Re: Sotomayor: Too Many Catholics, Jews, on the Supreme Court
« Reply #6 on: April 10, 2016, 08:26:42 PM »
Quote from: FlaGator on April 10, 2016, 08:19:56 PM
She sounds pretty racist if you ask me.

She will get a pass.  Only white people can be racist. 
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Re: Sotomayor: Too Many Catholics, Jews, on the Supreme Court
« Reply #7 on: April 10, 2016, 09:00:02 PM »
Quote from: I_B_Perky on April 10, 2016, 08:17:31 PM
Now let us put the shoe on the other foot dummies.  Let us say that Scalia or Thomas said that.  We both know the outrage on the dump would be enormous. 

Selective outrage.  The dummies forte.

Oh, hell yes.  You could hear the neck veins popping, as they search for left-over pizza that Mom bought on the EBT card. 
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Re: Sotomayor: Too Many Catholics, Jews, on the Supreme Court
« Reply #8 on: April 10, 2016, 09:02:33 PM »
Quote from: DLR Pyro on April 10, 2016, 08:19:37 PM
If you ask me, there are too many stupid ass Latinas on the Supreme Court.

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Re: Sotomayor: Too Many Catholics, Jews, on the Supreme Court
« Reply #9 on: April 11, 2016, 06:44:41 AM »
I'm frustrated at the dearth on the USSC of justices faithful to the Constitution. After that I don't much care what planet they're from or where they were educated.
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