The Limits of Empathy for Sonia Sotomayor

Time by Christopher Caldwell | May. 30, 2009 (Opinion)

If you doubt that President Obama has changed American politics, consider that we are about to have the first Supreme Court confirmation hearing in almost a quarter-century that does not revolve, in one way or another, around Roe v. Wade. The appeals-court judge Sonia Sotomayor has ruled on just three cases that dealt, indirectly, with abortion. She has written a lot about racial preferences, though. That is one reason the country is set to have a ... Full Story »

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Subjects: Health, U.S., Politics
Topics: Abortion, U.S. Supreme Court, Obama Administration
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Posted by: Posted by Derek Hawkins - May 30, 2009 - 10:28 AM PDT
Reviewed by: Derek Hawkins (review), Walter Cox (review), Mindy Phypers (review)
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 by Walter Cox - May. 30, 2009

An interesting change of focus that might just be correct--not Roe v. Wade, but instead affirmative action. The article says that race-based affirmative action is "reliably unpopular," but it's not just unpopular--it has been widely discredited as racist, and several states, including California, have outlawed it. Author Christopher Caldwell says that Rush LImbaugh represents opposition to "racial-preference programs," while President Obama supports them--well, no, I hope not. ... More »

Sonia Sotomayor may not be a racist, but the statement she made in her 2001 essay, and which was delivered as a speech at U.C. Berkeley ,was ... More »

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 by Derek Hawkins - May. 30, 2009
Derek posted this story.
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 by Mindy Phypers - May. 30, 2009

I found this article confusing. Not well written

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