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...from political office for their alleged roles in past civil wars. Johnson Sirleaf has acknowledged that she raised funds for Charles Taylor, a former President now facing war-crimes charges. But that support, she insists, was for aid when both were opposing the dictatorial rule of another earlier President, Samuel Doe. When Taylor's rule turned bloody, she opposed...
...President Obama green-lights a proposal to create an interagency team of interrogators to handle terrorist suspects, it will be - as Samuel Johnson said sardonically of second marriages - the triumph of hope over experience. The history of interagency cooperation on interrogation is both brief and bleak. (See TIME's photos: Do-It-Yourself Waterboarding...
...that's all Sotomayor was trying say: that her breadth of experience navigating different worlds might lead her to have greater wisdom on certain topics than her white male counterparts. It is no different from what Samuel Alito said in 2006 ("when I get a case about discrimination, I have to think about people in my own family who suffered discrimination because of their ethnic background or because of religion or because of gender"). And what countless other Congressmen and Supreme Court nominees and presidential candidates have said when channeling their own "I grew up in a van down...
...continue to promote the fallacy that judges, who are, after all, human beings, are not influenced by their personal experiences in the development of their own particular wisdom? Indeed, Justice Samuel Alito acknowledged that, when presented with certain cases, he takes into account the experiences of his immigrant ancestors and the ethnic, religious, and gender discrimination suffered by his Italian family members. Why do we find it so difficult to accept that a judge, who is also a Latina, when she exercises her own particular wisdom, may reach a more informed conclusion than another judge without the benefit...
...completely clean. When she testified at the TRC, Johnson Sirleaf admitted that during the early years of the war she had brought food, supplies and financial assistance to Taylor. At the time, she said, she wanted to see an end to the repressive and tyrannical regime of President Samuel Doe. If she cast her lot with a war criminal, she said, she did so unwittingly. (Read a Q&A with Johnson Sirleaf...