Sonia Sotomayor: Judge or advocate?

Sonia Sotomayor was nominated by the president to be a justice on the US Supremee Court: Will she be a judge (the way I think it's supposed to be ) or an advocate for her pet causes: Here's some back up on my fears: Judge Sotomayor’s handling of the firefighters claims’ of unfair treatment in the Ricci case have been widely criticized, both for the perfunctory and peculiar way in which she handled the matter and for the quota-driven decisions her ruling would allow in the workplace. Her vie

DiFi’s remarks at the Sotomayor hearing

U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein , D-Calif., praised U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s “deep and broad experience in the law” during opening remarks delivered at today’s Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing. Read her remarks in their entirety, after the jump… “Thank you Mr. Chairman. Judge Sotomayor, congratulations on your nomination and welcome to the Senate Judiciary Committee. “I want to start out with a couple of personal words. Your nomination I view with a great

What’s So Threatening About Sotomayor’s Real Life to Her Right-Wing Critics?

By Emily Badger, Miller-McCune.com. Posted June 12, 2009.For over 120 years, the idea that a judge’s background would influence how they approached cases was conventional wisdom. Why isn’t it now?Sonia Sotomayor’s critics and backers have spent recent weeks parsing one line of a speech she gave in 2001 during a conference at Berkeley on Latino representation on the judiciary. “I would hope,” she said, “that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach