Resolving the the Sotomoyor Race Issue

[Carmen813]

http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/j...rom-the-full-data-set/

Other than Ricci, Judge Sotomayor has decided 96 race-related cases while on the court of appeals.

Of the 96 cases, Judge Sotomayor and the panel rejected the claim of discrimination roughly 78 times and agreed with the claim of discrimination 10 times; the remaining 8 involved other kinds of claims or dispositions. Of the 10 cases favoring claims of discrimination, 9 were unanimous. (Many, by the way, were procedural victories rather than judgments that discrimination had occurred.) Of those 9, in 7, the unanimous panel included at least one Republican-appointed judge. In the one divided panel opinion, the dissent?s point dealt only with the technical question of whether the criminal defendant in that case had forfeited his challenge to the jury selection in his case. So Judge Sotomayor rejected discrimination-related claims by a margin of roughly 8 to 1.

Of the roughly 75 panel opinions rejecting claims of discrimination, Judge Sotomayor dissented 2 times. In Neilson v. Colgate-Palmolive Co., 199 F.3d 642 (1999), she dissented from the affirmance of the district court?s order appointing a guardian for the plaintiff, an issue unrelated to race. In Gant v. Wallingford Bd. of Educ., 195 F.3d 134 (1999), she would have allowed a black kindergartner to proceed with the claim that he was discriminated against in a school transfer. A third dissent did not relate to race discrimination: In Pappas v. Giuliani, 290 F.3d 143 (2002), she dissented from the majority?s holding that the NYPD could fire a white employee for distributing racist materials.

So basically, the vast majority of the time, this nominee voted against individuals claiming discrimination. She almost always voted yes or no, and very rarely abstained.

Based on this analysis, it's rather obvious this woman is not racist or likely to favor minorities over whites. Her speech given several years ago was obviously a poor choice of words. The more I review her case laws, the more I support her nomination.

 

[ScottyB]

Of those that she decided favorably on, what was the racial makeup?

 

[Moonbeam]

The right wants an activist judge and they are not going to get one. She will be approved.