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	<title>Comments on: Judging Sotomayor</title>
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	<description>Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable.</description>
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		<title>By: kranky kritter</title>
		<link>http://donklephant.com/2009/05/26/judging-sotomayor/comment-page-1/#comment-469297</link>
		<dc:creator>kranky kritter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 17:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ll be looking to see whether she used clear and defensible judgement when ruling in controversial cases. It&#039;s not just one a judge ruled, it&#039;s WHY they ruled.

As to identity politics, one thing you can do is look to the ruler&#039;s identities and see how they line up with their controversial rulings. For example, I&#039;ll be looking into WHY Sotamayor ruled against the plaintiffs who sued their city when the city through out test results because they declared the tests were biased because not enough hispanics performed well. I&#039;ll let folks know what I find out.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ll be looking to see whether she used clear and defensible judgement when ruling in controversial cases. It&#8217;s not just one a judge ruled, it&#8217;s WHY they ruled.</p>
<p>As to identity politics, one thing you can do is look to the ruler&#8217;s identities and see how they line up with their controversial rulings. For example, I&#8217;ll be looking into WHY Sotamayor ruled against the plaintiffs who sued their city when the city through out test results because they declared the tests were biased because not enough hispanics performed well. I&#8217;ll let folks know what I find out.</p>
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		<title>By: wj</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 16:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>After, perhaps, amusing ourselves with seeing the predictable reactions from the political commentators, this might be actually useful: See what judges who have actually served with her think of her abilities.  From what I have seen (admittedly a &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; preliminary look), their opinion seems to be that she is an extremely good judge.  And I was particularly taken with the fact that (if I recall the statistic correctly) when she was on a panel which made a 2-1 decision, she agreed with a conservative colleague way over 90% of the time.  Which does not exactly scream &quot;ideologue.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After, perhaps, amusing ourselves with seeing the predictable reactions from the political commentators, this might be actually useful: See what judges who have actually served with her think of her abilities.  From what I have seen (admittedly a <i>very</i> preliminary look), their opinion seems to be that she is an extremely good judge.  And I was particularly taken with the fact that (if I recall the statistic correctly) when she was on a panel which made a 2-1 decision, she agreed with a conservative colleague way over 90% of the time.  Which does not exactly scream &#8220;ideologue.&#8221;</p>
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