msnbc headline : Sotomayor’s focus on race issues may be hurdle

[spanone]

sotomayor's focus on race???? are you fucking kidding me??? it's ru$h limbaughs focus on race

'left-leaning Hispanic advocacy groups ' ??????


WASHINGTON - The selection of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court has opened a new battle in the fight over affirmative action and other race-conscious remedies for patterns of inequality, with each side invoking the election of the first black president in support of its cause.

Judge Sotomayor, whose parents moved to New York from Puerto Rico, has championed the importance of considering race and ethnicity in admissions, hiring and even judicial selection at almost every stage of her career — as a student activist at Princeton and at Yale Law School, as a board member of left-leaning Hispanic advocacy groups and as a federal judge arguing for diversity on the bench.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31011651/

[NYC_SKP]

1. Yes, with a Laser-Like Intensity Does She Focus on Race Issues....

Clearly her choices to be born to Puerto Rican parents and to accept the nomination from a Black President (black president???)...

...And her skin color!

The fucking nerve!!!

:nuke:

How did we not all see this coming?

:wtf:

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.(sarcasm).

[spanone]

2. the gop is amazingly effective when harnessed with the power of the mainstream media

think about it, the only voices screaming this bullshit are the likes of limbaugh, gingrich, coulter, beck, all the assholes, yet their voices seem to carry the same weight with 'the media' as the presidents

[Adelante]

3. From yesterday's SCOTUSBLOG - FYI

-snip

It seems to me that there is an infinitely simpler and more accurate way of figuring out whether Judge Sotomayor decides cases involving race fairly and dispassionately - read her decisions. So I did: I am in the midst of reviewing every single race-related case on which she sat on the Second Circuit.

There are roughly 100. They cover the gamut from employment discrimination to racial bias in jury selection. I decided that I would stop and write an interim report once I got through her 50 most recent race-related cases other than Ricci because the numbers are sufficiently striking and decisive. Here is what I found.

In those 50 cases, the panel accepted the claim of race discrimination only three times. In all three cases, the panel was unanimous; in all three, it included a Republican appointee. In roughly 45, the claim was rejected. (Two were procedural dispositions.)

On the other hand, she twice was on panels reversing district court decisions agreeing with race-related claims - i.e., reversing a finding of impermissible race-based decisions. Both were criminal cases involving jury selection.

In the 50 cases, the panel was unanimous in every one. There was a Republican appointee in 38, and these panels were all obviously unanimous as well. Thus, in the roughly 45 panel opinions rejecting claims of discrimination, Judge Sotomayor never dissented.

It seems to me that these numbers decisively disprove the claim that she decides cases with any sort of racial bias.

-more

http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/judge-sotomayor-and-race/

[spanone]

5. facts rarely ever get in the way of hysteria

[Adelante]

7. Ain't that the truth nt

[OHdem10]

4. Can we be honest here. "The Browning of America" fear is being

reinforced by the selection of a Hispanic to SC.

The Media has been suckered in as usual by the Right.
(Or are we seeing how they really believe?)

[AllentownJake]

6. Awesome!

Please attack this woman for being proud of her heritage. The number of Hispanics voting for Democrats will reach 70-80% next election cycle.

[spanone]

8. we could be watching the death of the republican party...and not a moment too soon imo

[AllentownJake]

11. Don't worry

the Corptocracy will evolve. They will just co-opt more of us.

Look at Evan Bayh and Arlen Specter!

[krispos42]

9. So the party of systemic race-based voter-repression...

...is screaming racism?


:banghead: tag head-butts into a bloody pulp...

[spanone]

10. but instead of the media pointing out this irony, they promote the racist agenda

[asjr]

12. We have met the enemy and it is the media.

[TexasObserver]

13. Alito was part of a rightwing racist clan in law school.

And after, for God's sake!

More GOP double standard.