Conservatives Rip Into Sotomayor's 'Legally Illiterate' Dissent On Race

[DonViejo]

SAHIL KAPUR – APRIL 23, 2014, 12:50 PM EDT

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."

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[JaneyVee]

1. Drama queens. Deal with your own

political activists on $COTUS who are eroding our democracy.

[msanthrope]

2. That dissent, coupled with a milquetoast plurality is a signal to the Far Right that the next Obama

appointment is going to swing the pendulum back to us.

Yeah...Sotomayor called out her fellow Catholics as racists. That chapped their asses.

[davidn3600]

10. If the GOP gets the Senate...they wont confirm any more of Obama's judges

They'd rather leave the seats vacant.

[ProSense]

3. Seens like

"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...

...it was written by a bunch of racists, claiming her dissent was "legally illiterate," and then pointing out that she is a "Latina."

[bullwinkle428]

4. I guess we're supposed to be relieved they stopped short of calling her a "wetback".

"Driven by emotion"? Yeah, because we all know (Archie Bunker voice) "that's how them people are".

"naked and bare-knuckled political activist with barely even a pretense of attending to the law"

Wow, the projection is off the charts here! I cannot think of a better description of bogus legal bullshit employed by Scalia over the past few years in various rulings.

[Gormy Cuss]

7. It's as if they're implying she's an illegal immigrant or something.

Nah, scratch the "or something."

[indepat]

5. The louder conservatives squeal, the more the nail's been hit squarely on their heads

[Donald Ian Rankin]

6. I think it's hard to defend her dissent in this case.

I think it requires a considerable amount of suspension of disbelief to accept that Sotormayor's dissent is based on objective assessment of the law, rather than on trying to find a legal justification for the decision she wanted to reach.

[Rex]

8. The National Review is something I would use to wipe my ass if no TP was around.

No wonder GOPukers are so lost in the sea of reality.

[yellowcanine]

9. Ah yes, The last refuge of a Republican scoundrel when criticizing a strong woman, "emotion."

[redqueen]

11. Good. Glad she struck a nerve. nt

[gratuitous]

12. I'll forego the click-bait

Did the legal eagles at the National Review have a substantive complaint about anything specific in Justice Sotomayor's dissent, or did they content themselves with name-calling and whitesplaining?

[hootinholler]

13. God Damned Right!

She should shut the fuck up and take the money like Fat Tony and Roberts!

Just in case: