Justice Sotomayor: Ethnicity ‘May And Will Make A Difference In Judging’

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Daily Caller:

According to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the sex and ethnicity of a judge “may and will make a difference in our judging.”

 

In a 2001 speech at Berkeley College when she was a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, she touted the importance of race and the influence it has on making judgments. La Raza Law Journal published the speech here.

 

“Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences,” she said. “Our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.”

 

More diversity in judges “will have an effect on the development of the law and on judging,” Sotomayor explained. Her speech hammered the point home, saying, “there is no objective stance but only a series of perspectives” and that “personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see.”

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Biased opinions can also affect what judges choose to see...