[From article]
All you really need to know about Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's dissent in this week's affirmative-action case is that Attorney General Eric Holder praised it as "courageous."
There's a strong presumption that whatever meets Holder's approval will be insipid or politically stilted or both, and Sotomayor's opinion doesn't disappoint on either count.
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The emotional heart of her opinion comes near the end, where she repeats over and over the mantra "race matters." She notes how a minority can be asked what country he is from, even if his family has been here for generations, and the hurtful effects of other similar "slights," "snickers" and "silent judgments."
This passage could be titled "Microaggression comes to the Supreme Court." Needless to say, such inadvertent offenses can wound people. But what do any of them have to do with college admissions, or the Supreme Court's jurisprudence?
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At least she leaves no doubt about her animating vision. It is of a perpetually racialized society with different rules for different groups, blessed by a "race-sensitive" Supreme Court.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0414/lowry042514.php3#.U2cAIt0--yM
Jewish World Review
April 25, 2014 / 25 Nissan, 5774
Sonia Sotomayor through the looking glass
By Rich Lowry
Sonia Sotomayor through the looking glass
By Rich Lowry
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