May 26, 2009

La mayor de los Soto

Más sobre Sonia Sotomayor, la candidata de Obama a la Suprema Corte de EEUU.

Qué lindo que sería que algún día la progresía de EEUU elija a la gente por mérito y no por su pertenencia a tal o cual grupo racial, cultural o ideológico:

In picking Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama has confirmed that identity politics matter to him more than merit.

Judge Sotomayor is not one of the leading lights of the federal judiciary and would not even have been on the shortlist if she were not Hispanic.

She has a mixed reputation, with a questionable temperament and no particularly important opinions in over 10 years on the Second Circuit. Most notably, she was part of the panel that summarily affirmed the dismissal of Ricci v. DeStefano, where the City of New Haven denied firefighter promotions based on an admittedly race-neutral exam whose results did not yield the “correct” racial mix of successful candidates. Sotomayor’s colleague José Cabranes—a liberal Democrat—excoriated the panel’s actions and the Supreme Court will likely reverse the ruling next month.

If this is the kind of “empathy” the president wants from his judges, we are in for a long summer—and more bitter confirmation battles in the future.

2 comments:

  1. Es lógico que tenga ese criterio para seleccionar jueces, teniendo en cuenta que llegó a la presidencia gracias a esta "identity politics" y no precisamente por mérito.

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  2. Todo un símbolo, igualdad a palos.

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