Newt Gingrich, on Twitter: White man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw. Latina woman racist should also withdraw.

[Peikko 1,575]

That does seem to be your interpretation Alien. Is it my fault that you perceive me looking down on you? I think not.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Suddenly working class heroes have sprung up out of the woodwork. Who knew.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

It is pretty low to be twittering about something as frivolous as this Sotomayor soundbite while the guy is touring Auschwitz.

Supreme Court nominations aren't frivolous.

It is when you're at the scene of one of the worst examples of state sponsored racism in recent history - and have the nerve to take a 2 sentence quote completely out of context and call it racist.

It shows that he understands nothing.

Where those two sentences came from. Judge for yourself.

An excerpt:

In our private conversations, Judge Cedarbaum has pointed out to me that seminal decisions in race and sex discrimination cases have come from Supreme Courts composed exclusively of white males. I agree that this is significant but I also choose to emphasize that the people who argued those cases before the Supreme Court which changed the legal landscape ultimately were largely people of color and women. I recall that Justice Thurgood Marshall, Judge Connie Baker Motley, the first black woman appointed to the federal bench, and others of the NAACP argued Brown v. Board of Education. Similarly, Justice Ginsburg, with other women attorneys, was instrumental in advocating and convincing the Court that equality of work required equality in terms and conditions of employment.

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 will make a difference in our judging. Justice O'Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases. I am not so sure Justice O'Connor is the author of that line since Professor Resnik attributes that line to Supreme Court Justice Coyle. I am also not so sure that I agree with the statement. First, as Professor Martha Minnow has noted, there can never be a universal definition of wise. Second, 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.

Let us not forget that wise men like Oliver Wendell Holmes and Justice Cardozo voted on cases which upheld both sex and race discrimination in our society. Until 1972, no Supreme Court case ever upheld the claim of a woman in a gender discrimination case. I, like Professor Carter, believe that we should not be so myopic as to believe that others of different experiences or backgrounds are incapable of understanding the values and needs of people from a different group. Many are so capable. As Judge Cedarbaum pointed out to me, nine white men on the Supreme Court in the past have done so on many occasions and on many issues including Brown.

However, to understand takes time and effort, something that not all people are willing to give. For others, their experiences limit their ability to understand the experiences of others. Other simply do not care. Hence, one must accept the proposition that a difference there will be by the presence of women and people of color on the bench. Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see. My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.

[Danno 1,228]

Wow, sounds like her and Obama were fermented in the same batch.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Oh the outrage!

[almaty 19]

yes..2 sinners from the devil's spawn

[pedroh 21]