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...Judge Sotomayor is not the first female judge to disagree with the adage that “a wise old man and a wise old woman will come to the same conclusion.” As documented by Justice Paul H. Anderson in A Tribute to Justice Esther M. Tomljanovich, Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Esther M. Tomljanovich also took issue with this maxim. According to fellow Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Anderson, “[a]s a person who had felt the sting of gender discrimination, Esther brought a fresh perspective to the bench. She knew what it was like...
...long as I’ve been alive, he tried to fix my grandmother. Wihyun Yi: a name best sighed—and a woman who did just that for the 20 years I knew her. She died this past April, and it was the first time I saw brokenness in my carpenter grandfather. The morning before the day she was due to pass, I awoke to the sound of grief: the slow shuffling of feet across the splotched carpet of a home for two, the heaving of cushions as a body sinks into them, and the breaking of noise...
...lines around the edges of his mouth tightly drawn and determined southwards. Offering my consolations months after we had all attended the funeral seemed void of sincerity, and I wanted, so badly, to give him more than my sympathy. I wanted him to feel, despite the death of a woman he had served with patience and grace for more than half a century, that he possessed significance for me, that he was responsible for the person I was today. I wanted to give him the agency he had lost...
...American and a Latina (a woman of Spanish-speaking, Latin American ancestry), I am outraged at the hurtful, opportunistic, and abusive insults recently leveled at Judge Sonia Sotomayor. Innocent remarks made by Judge Sotomayor about her wisdom and ability as a judge of Latino ancestry have been twisted into excuses for unwarranted name-calling, including labeling her a racist. Endless variations of Judge Sotomayor’s statements have been disseminated, but her critics have not been careful to include complete, verbatim quotes of her comments in their proper contexts so as to allow audiences the opportunity to appreciate...
...Several women said family members had been detained in mass police arrests the previous day. "Free my husband! Free my husband!" cried a group of women wearing head scarves. "He has heart disease," one woman said of her arrested husband. "He didn't go out yesterday or the day before, but still they took him." The women estimated that thousands of men had been arrested. They dumped out plastic bags that held more than 100 pairs of footwear and trousers, which they said police had forced the detainees to take off when they were arrested. Urumqi Party Secretary...