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A reader summarizes Sonia Sotomayor’s answers to her confirmation questionnaire:
She is a member of BJ Warehouse Club.
Her dentist has been doing very well recently.
In the 1970s, she ran a copying machine at the Yale GP student center, then at Yale Law School.
She owns real estate, but no stocks.
The responses are extremely well written.
Excerpts from Judicial Questionnaire filled out by Judge Sotomayor and released today to the public:
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Q. The American Bar Association’s Commentary to its Code of Judicial Conduct states that it is inappropriate for a judge to hold membership in any organization that invidiously discriminates on the basis of race, sex, religion, or national origin. [...]
Jonah Goldberg on Sotomayor: just when you thought the debate could sink no further.
Upon review of Judge Sotomayor’s so-called reversal rate, it appears she’s doing better than her peers on average. According to the New York Law Journal, which runs a monthly column called “2d Circuit Roundup,” since 2002 the High Court has taken up 35 cases from the Second Circuit; of those, it has reversed, vacated [...]
Brad DeLong raps my knuckles for being cavalier about the sentence talking heads have been endlessly parsing from Sotomayor’s Berkeley speech. Here’s the full paragraph:
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 [...]
One of Sonia Sotomayor’s lower-candlepower remarks was the one about a Latina judge making a better decision yada yada, [UPDATE: this is too flip, as Brad Delong notes and I discuss in this post] to which the franticosphere has clung as to a slippery rock in a Class V river, and with as little success. [...]
I do not understand the conversation about Sonia Sotomayor’s notional affirmative action advantages at all, not at all. The affirmative action that gives you a kick upwards in Eastern Establishment territory is the thumb on the scale for white people from the right schools and neighborhoods and families, especially legacy applicants: it’s the [...]
This might be the funniest blog post headline ever. (And a great post as well).
There actually is one non-laughable argument against Sotomayor — but advancing it will also reveal that she’s a very good judge.
The Supreme Court is not final because they it is infallible; it is infallible only because it is final.
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