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Sotomayor Must Misspeak Every Time She Gives a Speech

Okay, not every time, but CQ reports that Sotomayor was quite fond of touting the superior legal acumen of the "wise Latina woman" or perhaps just the "wise woman": http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/legal_be...reference.html


Sotomayor Repeatedly Referenced 'Wise Woman' in Speeches
By Seth Stern
June 4, 2009

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor delivered multiple speeches between 1994 and 2003 in which she suggested "a wise Latina woman" or "wise woman" judge might "reach a better conclusion" than a male judge.

Those speeches, released Thursday as part of Sotomayor's responses to the Senate Judiciary Committee's questionnaire, (to see Sotomayor's responses to the Senate Judiciary Committee click here and here) suggest her widely quoted 2001 speech in which she indicated a "wise Latina" judge might make a better decision was far from a single isolated instance.

A draft version of a October 2003 speech Sotomayor delivered at Seton Hall University stated, "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would, more often than not, reach a better conclusion." That is identical to her October 2001 remarks at the University of California, Berkeley that have become the subject of intense criticism by Republican senators and prompted conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh to label her "racist."

In addition, Sotomayor delivered a series of earlier speeches in which she said "a wise woman" would reach a better decision. She delivered the first of those speeches in Puerto Rico in 1994 and then before the Women's Bar Association of the State of New York in April 1999.

The summary descriptions of speeches Sotomayor provided indicated she delivered remarks similar to the 1994 speech on three other occasions in 1999 and 2000 during two addresses at Yale and one at the City University of New York School of Law.

Her repeated use of the phrases "wise Latina woman" and "wise woman" would appear to undermine the Obama administration's assertions that the statement was simply a poor choice of words. After details of the 1994 speech circulated before the questionnaire's release, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, emerged from his private meeting with Sotomayor and expressed new concerns about the nominee's "identity politics."



Sotomayor Listed as member of La Raza for six years

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.p...w&pageId=99420

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/06/0...for-six-years/

Sotomayor's Senate Questionaire Released
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/...l?hpid=topnews


Can you imagine the uproar if any white male presented for a judicial position - in any venue - stated that he was better qualified to judge primarily based on being white and male then any minority ( any minority - you pick; gender, race, religion, culture, ect ) ?? The man would be run out of town on a rail ... but here ... no, no, nothing to see here... :

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