Legal Commentary

Stuart Taylor: Some May Say Sotomayor Is An Ungrateful Jerk For Criticizing Princeton

By Big Tent Democrat

My gawd, the chip on his shoulder is becoming a boulder. Stuart Taylor writes:

Princeton University was guilty of "an institutional pattern of discrimination" against Chicanos and Puerto Ricans, then-sophomore Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a letter published in the May 10, 1974 edition of the student newspaper, The Daily Princetonian. . . . Some may see the fact that Princeton awarded Sotomayor a summa cum laude degree and the prestigious Pyne Prize when she graduated in 1976 as evidence of her unparalleled brilliance in overcoming a "total absence of regard, concern, and respect" for people such as her.

And some may see Sotomayor's letter as evidence that she was predisposed to look for the worst, not the best, in the institution that had afforded her such opportunities. She now sits on Princeton's Board of Trustees.

Some may wonder if Stuart Taylor realizes what his writings say about him. Adam Serwer has more.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on May 29, 2009 (boomark / email).