Comments on: Wicker, Cochran: Will They or Won’t They on Sotomayor? http://www.mississippidemocrats.org/blog/2009/wicker-cochran-will-they-or-wont-they-on-sotomayor/ Fri, 18 Jun 2010 02:12:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Sam Hall http://www.mississippidemocrats.org/blog/2009/wicker-cochran-will-they-or-wont-they-on-sotomayor/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Sam Hall Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:54:02 +0000 http://www.mississippidemocrats.org/?p=950#comment-11 <p>You'll notice that Majority in Mississippi didn't bother saying what it was about Judge Sotomayor that is so objectionable. I'll take a gander that it was off-handed comment about Latino women making better judgements than white men.</p> <p>Granted, that was a poor choice of words. But to use that one illustration as evidence of some prejudicial pattern is absolutely absurd.</p> <p>If you review her race-related rulings on the Appeals Court, you will find that in the 98 race-related cases Judge Sotomayor ruled against claims of discrimination 78 times and for it only 10 times. (The other 8 cases involved other types of claims.) In other words, only less than 10 percent of the time she ruled that someone was the victim of racial discrimination.</p> <p>Check my numbers here: http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/judge-sotomayor-and-race-results-from-the-full-data-set/</p> <p>Hardly a prejudicial jurist. But then again, maybe that's why Majority in Mississippi doesn't like her, because she's not prejudicial...</p> You’ll notice that Majority in Mississippi didn’t bother saying what it was about Judge Sotomayor that is so objectionable. I’ll take a gander that it was off-handed comment about Latino women making better judgements than white men.

Granted, that was a poor choice of words. But to use that one illustration as evidence of some prejudicial pattern is absolutely absurd.

If you review her race-related rulings on the Appeals Court, you will find that in the 98 race-related cases Judge Sotomayor ruled against claims of discrimination 78 times and for it only 10 times. (The other 8 cases involved other types of claims.) In other words, only less than 10 percent of the time she ruled that someone was the victim of racial discrimination.

Check my numbers here: http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/judge-sotomayor-and-race-results-from-the-full-data-set/

Hardly a prejudicial jurist. But then again, maybe that’s why Majority in Mississippi doesn’t like her, because she’s not prejudicial…

]]> By: Mississippi Democrats Heart Sonia Sotomayor « Majority In Mississippi http://www.mississippidemocrats.org/blog/2009/wicker-cochran-will-they-or-wont-they-on-sotomayor/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Mississippi Democrats Heart Sonia Sotomayor « Majority In Mississippi Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:01:29 +0000 http://www.mississippidemocrats.org/?p=950#comment-10 <p>[...] in a challenge to Senators Cochran and Wicker, the staff called on the state’s senators to support [...]</p> [...] in a challenge to Senators Cochran and Wicker, the staff called on the state’s senators to support [...]

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