Word: sotomayor
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...TIME's cover story on Sonia Sotomayor [June 8]: Richard Lacayo made a disparaging remark: "Nobody expects you to make it to Princeton when you come from a public-housing project." I grew up in the 1960s in a public-housing project in Brooklyn, N.Y. Although I did my graduate work at Georgetown not Princeton, several of the kids in our project did go on to Ivy League colleges. In fact, many of the kids I grew up with became doctors, lawyers, college professors, social workers and journalists. A lot of kids who grow up rich never learn to develop...
...TIME's cover package on Sonia Sotomayor [June 8]: I fully agree with Sotomayor's 2001 statement that she "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." It is entirely possible for two jurists to arrive at an identical conclusion in a case, yet if one of them has considered more options and deliberated more over the issues, that jurist will have made the "wiser, more informed" decision. Sotomayor's background will automatically strengthen her consideration...
...amazed by the double standard being used for Sotomayor. George W. Bush suspends constitutional rights to catch terrorists and is labeled evil and un-American. Sotomayor suspends constitutional rights to catch sex offenders and is said to be "empathetic" to the problems of police officers. Is it acceptable or unacceptable to ignore constitutional rights? Bryan Smith, TUCSON, ARIZ...
...Christopher Caldwell's "The Limits of Empathy": Claiming that Sotomayor "ignored a host of pressing constitutional issues" when deciding against the plaintiffs in the New Haven, Conn., case is a gross misrepresentation of reality. In fact, the judges went along with current, established constitutional law intended to prevent discriminatory criteria. An appeals court should not overturn Supreme Court rulings lightly. It would have been judicial activism to ignore precedent and decide in the plaintiffs' favor. Cinny Wong, AUSTIN, TEXAS...
Supreme Court nominee SONIA SOTOMAYOR breaks ethnic barriers, ankle...