UNIT D - Blog 22

Sonia Sotomayor was the first Hispanic woman to be on the Supreme Court justice. I see this as being a racial issue mainly because most of the population on the Supreme Court consists of people who are Caucasian. Also, the majority of the Supreme Court are male and very few woman exist on the Supreme Court. In all of my research I found alot of comments stating that Sonia Sotamayor was a bully on the bench and not very smart. I don't understand how she can be called "not very smart" when she's chosen to be on the Supreme Court! She also graduated from a very prestigious school and her law background is very impressive. It's hard to believe an idiot would accomplish so much in her lifetime, therefore her experience and accomplishments prove that theory otherwise. I feel as if everyone is picking on her because she is a woman, i haven't heard this much argument over a male chosen to be on the Supreme Court. I think the fact people are having such a hard time accepting Sonia into the Supreme Court shows some gender bias. It seems as if the Supreme Court practices gender discrimination seeing that they don't have many women on the bench. Males are dominating the Supreme Court and all the ruckus about a Latina woman making her way on the Supreme Court is enough proof they don't accept women very easily into their courts. I've also heard alot about Sonia's heritage and people have been commenting on how she speaks. I don't see how this is of importance, it shouldn't matter if she has an accent or if she was raised in the Bronx because all that should matter is that she is experienced and has a colorful law background. Sonia is qualified for the job, end of story; and everyone needs to deal with it and throw gender and racism out the door because that just shows the justice system is unfair and unethical if they can't handle a woman on the Supreme Court.