How Nice: Justice Sotomayor ‘Alert to the Humanity’ of People in Her Liberal Opinions
After a couple of long, cautionary front-page stories documenting the Supreme Court’s “ sharp jolt to the right ,” New York Times legal reporter Adam Liptak on Tuesday took a shorter, mostly sympathetic look at the empathy and “humanity” shown by Obama’s liberal pick, Justice Sonia Sotomayor in “ Sotomayor Guides Courts’ Liberal Wing .” Liptak’s overall report was pretty balanced in its labeling, but also contained this paragraph summarizing one of Sotomayor’s “most telling” opinions, on the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear the case of a Louisiana prisoner claiming unjust punishment.
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