Fox News ran the special, Judging Sotomayor, on July 12, during which co-host Bret Baier aired a clip of Sotomayor stating, “the Court of Appeals is where policy is made.” He used this to claim that Sotomayor confessed to “legislating from the bench.”
Judge Sotomayor actually explained the difference between district and appeals courts while answering a question regarding clerkships at the two levels. Her response is in line with the policy making role of the federal appellate courts. The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States and numerous legal experts agree.
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2 Responses to “Fox News Fabricates Sotomayor Confession”
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Yep taking things out of context to back up your argument…sounds familiar.
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Congratulations to Sotomayor! I am suprised that nobody has called her a racist yet. I am sure it is coming. Just to pre-empt this the modern definition (as it is used today) of racism is: hatred or intolerance of another race or other races. So before you call her this because of one comment think about what you are doing. Does she really hate other races? Maybe her comment was a bit ethnocentric but taken in the context of the audience to whom she was addressing I wouldn’t make a big deal about it. If that is the only thing the Repubs can come up with that caused them to vote against her I think she must be a very solid choice.