A study has been done of the decisions of Sonia Sotomayor to find out if race and ethnicity played a role in her dispensing of justice from the bench. The one word summary of findings: NO.
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a portion of the larger article
Has Sotomayor exhibited a pattern of favoritism to minorities in race-related cases during her more than 10 years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit?
The answer is no, according to Tom Goldstein of Akin Gump's Washington office, a leading Supreme Court litigator. He has published on SCOTUSBlog, in two installments, the results of his own study of the 97 race-related cases Sotomayor has helped decide on the appeals court.
After summarizing statistics indicating that Sotomayor is not especially prone to rule for plaintiffs in discrimination cases and rarely disagrees with her 2nd Circuit colleagues in such cases, Goldstein concludes:
"Given that record, it seems absurd to say that Sotomayor allows race to infect her decisionmaking."
Like much of the previous information released about Judge Sonia Sotomayor, this should go far to shutting up the right wing critics who want to scream "race" about her nomination. Sadly, it probably will not since facts seldom get in their way or deter their agenda.