Peers approve of Sotomayor
Sonia Sotomayor LAW ’79, confirmed as a Supreme Court justice on Aug. 6 by the Senate, has come a long way since publishing her first article in the Yale Law Journal.
In the week after President Barack Obama announced her nomination in late May, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals judge began preparing for a confirmation hearing that, at least according to media accounts, seemed to grow more controversial by the day. But most of the 34 of Sotomayor’s Yale Law School classmates interviewed at the time attested to her practicality and intelligence both as a student and a jurist, with...
The diplomacy-speak on the whole reveals that Sotomayor is generally viewed as a mediocre intellect whose social and ethnic background provided the rungs for the ladder she climbed - in other words, a non-merit-based ascension to and up the judicial line. As for Calabresi, the only thing about the Ricci case that was not "well presented" was the race of the plaintiffs. Anyone famliar with Calabresi's political policy-driven, outcome-based jurisprudence knows full well that if the plaintiffs were black, that gasbag in a robe would have authored a 120-page tirade about civil rights, loaded with judicial outrage over New Haven's conduct. The man is a joke of a jurist.