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Sotomayor's Great Legal Mind Long Ago Defeated Race, Gender Nonsense

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Justice Taney, as a Roman Catholic, knew the Bible story of Cain. God punished Cain for not giving a blood sacrifice that necessitates killing an animal. That myth was necessary to link with the prediction that Christ would bleed on the Cross as a blood sacrifice. God turned Cain black. (God must be white, because Cain began as "white in his image.") God cursed Cain to "fetch wood and water" for non-blacks. He made him black so it would be easy to "see the mark of Cain" and take ownership of blacks for slave labor. I suppose Taney owned slaves or lived off their labor in some way. I say this because Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, owned one of the BIGGEST SLAVE PLANTATIONS and gave a huge slave plantation to his brother. Davis, from a Protestant family, spent years seven to nine in a Catholic all-boys school. That's an impressionable age. Maybe, like Catholic Taney, Davis learned from the fable of Cain that they were "special," and God made them too tender for manual labor. I'm a born atheist. Bible tales of greed, incest, adultery, mass murder, and laziness are very strong arguments for free thought.

auradawnveirs of CA 7:31PM July 17, 2009

why, oh why do you feel the need to throw in a gratuitous line about supreme court history not being "an unbroken account of brillant white men making brillant decesion?"
it leaves the reader with the impression that you are, in the end, simply trying to rationalize allowing racial discrimation to dilute meritocracy.
i think jeffrey rosen's article was effective because it came from a liberal and qouted what seemed like people who would be in a good position to comment on Sotomayor.
speaking of tired lines of argument, is it offensive to accuse dick cheney of being heartless because that might be considered stereotyical of old white men?
most of what you hoped to be your most salient points are utter nonsense in the true sense of the word. as someone who attended the law school i admit i hate to admit that.

nowayjose of DC 4:14PM June 01, 2009

I support President Obama's appointrment of Sonia Sotomayor as Supreme Court Judge.

Alma C. Olsen of CA 11:00AM May 29, 2009

Writing as an appeals court judge who happens to be a white male. I could not agree more with the lucidly expressed, well reasoned content of this essay. Thank you for bringing an accurate recitation of historical fact to the debate.
I support Judge Sotomayor's appointment precisely because she is intelligent, competent and respectful of precedent. She is also correct, by the way, that sometimes it is inevitable that reviewing court judges make policy. This may shock some people, but there are times when legislators leave it to the courts to flesh out the meaning of a statute because they don't want to do the hard work or stick their necks out. Moreover, supreme courts, whether state or federal, accept very few cases, compared to those decided by courts of appeal. If an issue is presented to us, and there is no law on the issue, or the statute is silent, or did not take into consideration the circumstances presented, a court of appeal must provide an answer. In that way, policy does get made.
What would be advisable, would be for commentators to speak to an appeals court judge before speaking out on subjects they have no knowledge of, and which definitively establishes their ignorance of the day to day responsibilities and powers of judges.

Michael of IL 2:41PM May 28, 2009