Meet the Real First LATINO US Supreme Court Justice and he ain’t no gurl!
US Justice Benjamin Cardozo
Sonia Sotomayor IS NOT the first so called Latino to sit on the United States Supreme Court. Benjamin Cardozo, a American and Sephardic Jew in the Spanish and Portuguese community, was confirmed to the US Supreme Court in 1932 until his death six years later.
Sotomayor claims that she can make better decisions than a white man due to her experience I wonder if she believes that Justice Cardozo made great decisions based on his experience?
Justice Cardozo was confirmed by a unanimous Senate voice vote which Sotormayor can not claim. But what they both have in common is they were both confirmed during the beginnings of serious American depressions. (Yes, we are going into a depression!)
According to wikipedia,
“the National Association of Latino Elected Officials and the Hispanic National Bar Association consider Sonia Sotomayor to be the first unequivocally Hispanic justice.”
Why does the National Association of Latino Elected Officials and the Hispanic National Bar Association get to define what hispanic is, or perhaps a more interesting question might be:
Do the National Association of Latino Elected Officials and the Hispanic National Bar Association only see Cardozo as a Jew instead of ethnically Latino? Why would that be?
In any event, Justice Benjamin Cardozo was ethnically a latino whose family was Sephardic Jew. Sotomayor can deny the facts which she has a history of doing, and it will be history who judges her in the end and not the National Association of Latino Elected Officials and the Hispanic National Bar Association!
I guess some people are more equal than others1
