Jared Taylor on Sonia Sotomayor

“Mr. Obama Shows his Hand”
by Jared Taylor
from American Renaissance, May 27, 2009

Sonia Sotomayor

President Obama has surprised no one by appointing a vividly race-conscious Hispanic as his first nominee to the United States Supreme Court. Some of Sonia Sotomayor’s choicer observations have now been widely reported: “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.” She also says sex and race “may and will make a difference in our judging.” (These remarks appeared in a publication that is called—apparently with a straight face—the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal) Miss Sotomayor is certainly no stranger to identity politics. She is a member of the Puerto Rican Bar Association, the Hispanic National Bar Association, the Association of Judges of Hispanic Heritage, and the National Council of La Raza.

Miss Sotomayor’s record bears out her self-proclaimed bias. She dismissed the right of New Haven’s white firefighters to bring suit when their promotion exam was thrown out because only whites got the top scores—and she didn’t even think it necessary to write an opinion explaining why. . . . More