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26 May 2009, 3:28 pm
Just a coincidence because it is a Latina nominee? [read post]
26 May 2009, 12:42 pm
  Was the first black President going to miss his chance to nominate the first Latina to the United States Supreme Court? [read post]
26 May 2009, 12:20 pm
But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage. [read post]
26 May 2009, 11:36 am
Furthermore, the president is making history by nominating the first Latina to the Supreme Court. [read post]
26 May 2009, 10:02 am
Apropos of the annoncement earlier today that President Obama has nominated a Latina women for appointment to the U.S. [read post]
26 May 2009, 7:22 am
She is the first Latina to serve on that court, and has participated in over 3000 panel decisions, authoring roughly 400 published opinions. [read post]
26 May 2009, 7:13 am
I am also not favorably impressed with her notorious statement that ‘a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life. [read post]
26 May 2009, 6:33 am
As we once wrote about Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the Second Circuit, paraphrasing the lyrics of another high-powered Latina who made it from the South Bronx to the pinnacle of fabulosity and fame, "Don't be fooled by the robes that she's got; she's still Sonia from the block. [read post]
26 May 2009, 2:30 am
Furthermore, of Puerto Rican descent, she is the first Latina nominee to the highest court.It has been very interesting to me personally to observe from a front row seat here in the Bronx the process of gradual transition and transformation in a court system once dominated almost entirely by white men, but which now has women and people of color in numerous positions of power ("Who's in Charge? [read post]
22 May 2009, 1:03 pm
Plaintiff was obliged to work in an atmosphere which was hostile to females by virtue of severe and pervasive favoritism granted to Latina females plant floor workers who would go along with Defendant Paul Smith, including unsolicited and unwelcome sexual remarks and/or innuendos, advances, requests for sexual favors and other verbal and physical conduct of a sexual nature. [read post]
20 May 2009, 1:02 pm
f) Defendant Paul Smith daily uttered sexually offensive remarks to non-compliant Latina women including labeling the Latina workers: - bitch - stupid cunts - cunts - panochas (derived from Spanish language derogatory term for vagina) - pan (short for panochas) - would form a triangle with his bilateral thumb and index fingers directing at Latina workers while sticking out his wiggling tongue. g) Defendant Paul Smith did not utter any similar sexually and/or racially… [read post]
19 May 2009, 6:34 am
" And at Politico.com, Gebe Martinez has an essay entitled "The selection of a latina for the Supreme Court won't mean quotas trumped qualifications. [read post]
17 May 2009, 12:55 pm
(Please note: the names and locations of all parties have been changed to protect the confidentiality of the proceedings.) 41. [read post]
16 May 2009, 9:00 pm
Charlie Savage recently published an article in the New York Times that discusses a 2001 speech that Judge Sonia Sotomayor delivered to a Latino and Latina law student group at the University of California at Berkeley. [read post]
16 May 2009, 8:25 am
LATINA reports that Jon Stewart of The Daily Show is working on a two-hour special about the U.S. naturalization process for the History Channel called The Naturalized. [read post]
15 May 2009, 12:36 pm
All times herein mentioned, Defendants Paul Smith and David Smith daily maintained a pattern and practice of unlawful workplace racial discrimination and harassment against Latino and Latina plant floor workers, including Plaintiff, consisting of racial insults and racially offensive remarks, including: - Mother fucking Mexican - Ignorant Mexicans - Hurry up motherfucker - Lazy Mexican - Fucking Mexican - Wet back - Fucking wet backs - Stupid Mexican - Mexicans are ignorant 34. [read post]
15 May 2009, 7:05 am
My co-blogger Jonathan Adler points to today's story in the New York Times by Charlie Savage about a lecture Judge Sotomayor published in the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal... [read post]
15 May 2009, 5:05 am
More comments by Judge Sonia Sotomayor have surfaced that are sure to complicate her confirmation should President Obama nominate her to the Supreme Court. [read post]
13 May 2009, 12:28 pm
Brown is a Latina female, born XX/XX/1959, and is of Mexican descent and/or national origin. [read post]