{"id":4830,"date":"2009-05-28T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4830"},"modified":"2017-11-01T16:13:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T21:13:03","slug":"a-question-for-judge-sotomayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/28\/a-question-for-judge-sotomayor\/","title":{"rendered":"A Question for Judge Sotomayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given that you, ma&#8217;am, have determined that judicial wisdom is racially or experientially relative <a href=\"http:\/\/bench.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=MzIzZWU1MjcxYWZiMzdlOTAxOTE5NmRlMTg1MGZjZWQ=\" target=\"_blank\">with this quote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn&#8217;t lived that life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Could you please elaborate on the complete hierarchy of wisdom and jurisprudence in your worldview.  For example, where do blacks and Asian-ancestored people fall?  Are they above white males (probably) but below Hispanics?  Also, how do substrata within the ethnic groups fall, for example Korean versus Pakistani or Mexican (Aztec-influenced) versus Guatamalan (more Mayan in identity)?  Aside from national origin, are there other hardship modifiers to calculate, such as physical handicaps or socio-economic upbringing?  For example, does a Caribbean with a limp trump the son of a Panamanian business leader?<\/p>\n<p>As a white male blogger and hence probably less wise than a well-trained golden retriever, I&#8217;d like the complete scale to make sure we&#8217;re not settling for someone who is limited to the middle of the wisdom scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given that you, ma&#8217;am, have determined that judicial wisdom is racially or experientially relative with this quote: I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn&#8217;t lived that life. Could you please elaborate on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17082,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830\/revisions\/17082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}