Sotomayor hearings

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Eugene Robinson at the Washington Post does a good job of laying out what I've found to be the most irritating aspect of the Sotomayor confirmation hearings thus far"Republicans' outrage, both real and feigned, at Sotomayor's musings about how her identity as a 'wise Latina' might affect her judicial decisions is based on a flawed assumption: that

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That nails it perfectly.

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Have you seen this bit of snide blatant racism from one of the "honorable" members of the Judiciary Committee?

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Yeah, I caught that. What an ass.

From The Rude Pundit

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"What Judge Sotomayor was saying was that, as a non-white and as a woman, others were always looking at her to see if she was being biased, in a way that they would not look at white male judges. She was saying that the paradigm is wrong, that all biases need to be on the table. Unfortunately, those questioning her cling to that sinking raft of false objectivity."

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