Projection Watch: 'Conservatives Rip Into Sotomayor's 'Legally Illiterate' Dissent On Race - TPMDC

[WillyT]

Conservatives Rip Into Sotomayor's 'Legally Illiterate' Dissent On Race
Sahil Kapur – TPMDC
April 23, 2014, 12:50 PM EDT

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Justice Sonia Sotomayor's impassioned defense of race-conscious admissions policies Tuesday angered conservative pundits and inflamed an already bitter ideological chasm over race in the Obama era.

The National Review published an editorial trashing the Obama-appointed justice's blistering dissent as "Orwellian" and "legally illiterate" after the Supreme Court upheld Michigan's ban on affirmative action.

"Her opinion is legally illiterate and logically indefensible, and the still-young career of this self-described 'wise Latina' on the Supreme Court already offers a case study in the moral and legal corrosion that inevitably results from elevating ethnic-identity politics over the law," wrote the editors of the influential magazine. "Justice Sotomayor has revealed herself as a naked and bare-knuckled political activist with barely even a pretense of attending to the law, and the years she has left to subvert the law will be a generation-long reminder of the violence the Obama administration has done to our constitutional order."

Appearing on Fox News, Steve Hayes of the Weekly Standard said the first Latina justice's lengthy opinion was driven by "emotion."

"This was a decision written by somebody who was writing about emotion," he said, as quoted by the Daily Caller. "It was President Obama's 'empathy standard' — that's what he was looking for when he nominated her, that's what I think he got."

In a 6-2 ruling written by Justice Anthony Kennedy...

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More: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/sonia-sotomayor-race-conservatives

[Jefferson23]

1. "out of touch with reality."

She took the rare step of reading her dissent at length from the bench Tuesday before a packed chamber. ( end )

What an understatement.


K&R

[LibertyLover]

2. Conservatives wouldn't know a well-written

and argued dissent if it rose up, grew teeth and bit them in their asses.

[WillyT]

3. Kickin For Revered Al !!!