claim: sotomayor thinks "that one’s sex, race and ethnicity ought to affect the decisions one renders from the bench."
author: judicial confirmation network
evidence_1: may 26, 2009 ... washington — president obama announced tuesday that he would nominate  sonia sotomayor , a federal appeals judge in new york, to the supreme court ...  “she thinks that judges should dictate policy and that one's sex, race and  ethnicity ought to affect the decisions one renders from the bench.”.
evidence_2: may 26, 2016 ... ricci, in part, led conservative critics to call sotomayor “a liberal judicial activist”  who thinks that “one's sex, race, and ethnicity ought to affect the decisions one  renders from the bench.” (the supreme court ultimately reversed the second  circuit's ruling.) sotomayor_ncc_child_640 11-year-old maddie was ...
evidence_3: ... has criticized sotomayor as a judge who believes "one's sex, race and ethnicity  ought to affect the decisions one renders." georgetown university law professor  susan low bloch, who was a law clerk to justice marshall, says sotomayor's  background would more likely affect her colleagues' understanding of hispanic  life ...
evidence_4: may 26, 2009 ... "she thinks that judges should dictate policy, and that one's sex, race, and  ethnicity ought to affect the decisions one renders from the bench." as she has  risen through the judicial ranks, sotomayor increasingly has drawn the ire and  opposition of conservatives. a majority of republican senators opposed ...
evidence_5: may 26, 2009 ... she thinks that judges should dictate policy, and that one's sex, race, and  ethnicity ought to affect the decisions one renders from the bench." that's a  reference to a case involving applications for promotions within the new haven,  connecticut fire department, in which sotomayor was a member of a judicial ...