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Sonia Sotomayor

Seeking balance on the scales of justice.

Calvin Trillin

June 3, 2009

The nominee’s Sotomayor, Whom all good Latinos adore But right-wingers tend to deplore. They’d like to show Sonia the door. Her record, they say, heretofore Reveals that beliefs at her core Would favor minorities more: She’d hand them decisions galore, Because of the racial rapport.

Whereas white male judges are, as everyone knows, totally neutral.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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