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Another question on current events: The California Supreme Court has ruled to uphold Proposition 8, which bans gay marriage. What are your thoughts on that? Well, I think the will of the people in California was clear. This was a popular referendum, highly publicized and voted on by millions of...
“I was surprised and I was disappointed, but I understood,” said Faust, who first heard of Forst’s decision several weeks ago. “He’s been a huge asset this year, in part because of his deep understanding...
That case is now before the Supreme Court, which heard arguments last month. Its ruling is pending. The Justices have already reversed three rulings Sotomayor had joined. But unlike the affirmative-action case, most of those involved technical issues that would be hard to build an opposition campaign around. Two...
Interestingly, seven years ago, Sotomayor decided against an abortion-rights group that attempted to challenge the federal ban - since lifted by President Obama - on funding to international family-planning groups that provide abortions. In a ruling to uphold a lower-court's decision that threw out the case, Sotomayor wrote...
In a 2001 speech at the Berkeley campus of the University of California, Sotomayor aired the view that a judge's gender and ethnic background inevitably affect his or her decision-making, and probably should. She said then, "Justice O'Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise...