OK, name the source of the following quote.
“When I get a case about discrimination, I have to think about people in my own family who suffered discrimination because of their ethnic background or because of religion or because of gender. And I do take that into account.”
A. Louis Brandeis
B. Sonia Sotomayor
C. Samuel Alito
D. William Rehnquist
The answer is . . . ! And, of course, we all remember the deeply principled opposition the Republicans took to the nomination of this empathic justice who relied on personal experience as a lens through which to understand the cases that came before him. Monster.
As Serwer notes (in the link above) -
“The conservative freakout over Sotomayor’s remarks, as opposed to the way Alito’s were marketed as a selling point for him as a judge, makes a remarkably salient case for why we still need affirmative action. Two judges made similar points–one was an Italian American man, the other was a Latino woman, both accomplished on the bench–but what was sold as a strength for Alito makes Sotomayor a racist. Taylor and Buchanan, while attacking Sotomayor, have inadvertently made the case for a policy they’d like to see eliminated, by proving that all things being equal, a minority woman is held to a different standard than the white man of similar background and experience.”
