Bench Memos

Reading On In That Law Journal

In case you missed it on The Corner, go read this e-mail from a reader to Rich Lowry about the other contributors to that 2001 Berkeley forum where Judge Sotomayor made her now-notorious “wise Latina” remark.  Turns out some prominent speakers the next day, including California judge Valeriano Saucedo and Ninth Circuit judge Richard Paez, quite plainly disagreed with her and defended the historic norm of judicial impartiality.  Perhaps she’d like to discuss her reaction to their reactions?

Matthew J. Franck is retired from Princeton University, where he was a lecturer in Politics and associate director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. He is also a senior fellow of the Witherspoon Institute, a contributing editor of Public Discourse, and professor emeritus of political science at Radford University.
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