I’ve learned via Weasel Zippers that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor (have you heard she’s a Latina with an enchanting life story?) made a comment in 1994 that was very similar to her 2001 comment stating Latinas come to better conclusions than white men.
The 1994 “rough draft” omitted the racial component, but contained 100% the sexism of the 2001 final version. So much for Barack Obama’s assurance that she’d just “misspoken.” Apparently, this is a life-long deeply held belief.
“Justice O’Connor has often been cited as saying that “a wise old man and a wise old woman reach the same conclusion in dueling cases. I am not so sure Justice O’Connor is the author of that line since Professor Resnik attributes the line to Supreme Court Justice Coyle. I am not so sure that I agree with the statement. First, if Prof. Martha Minnow is correct, there can never be a universal definition of ‘wise.’ Second, I would hope that a wise woman with the richness of her experience would, more often than not, reach a better conclusion.”
Bloggers from the high-strung left are practically wetting themselves jumping up and down demanding to know why, if the statement is so terrible, it wasn’t brought up in 1998 when she was confirmed for the US Court of Appeals. Kind of not the point.
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