CNN: Is Sotomayor the new Scalia? [View all]
That's their headline. Here is the other one...
Sonia Sotomayor channels liberal voice on Supreme Court
On the losing end of a 5-3 decision regarding police searches without a warrant, Sonia Sotomayor last week unleashed a withering dissent. With direct references to Ferguson, Missouri, and a reading list of black authors including Ta-Nehisi Coates and W.E.B Du Bois, Sotomayor took the majority to task for ignoring the realities on the ground.
"This case allows the police to stop you on the street, demand your identification, and check it for outstanding traffic warrants -- even if you are doing nothing wrong," she told her audience. And then she took things a step further, rejecting the majority's contention that the stop at hand could be considered an isolated instance.
"We must not pretend that the countless people who are routinely targeted by police are 'isolated," she said. "They are the canaries in the coal mine whose deaths, civil and literal, warn us that no one can breathe in this atmosphere."
To some, she has become the liberals' answer to the late Justice Antonin Scalia, asking tough questions of lawyers and delivering fierce opinions with -- at times -- searing language.
"Like Justice Scalia, Jutice Sotomayor has the ability to take on her colleagues on the court when she thinks they are wrong, while at the same time speaking to the public at large in colorful, evocative, often fiery language," said Elizabeth Wydra, president of the progressive Constitutional Accountability Center.
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http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/29/politics/sonia-sotomayor-supreme-court-liberal-voice/index.html
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