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Lecturer in Law Thomas C. Goldstein is referenced in The New York Times in an op-ed column by David Brooks about the judicial opinions of Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor:
...If you look at the whole record, you come away with the impression that Sotomayor is a hard-working, careful-though-unspectacular jurist whose primary commitment is to the law.
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She is quite liberal. But there’s little evidence that she is motivated by racialist thinking or an activist attitude.
Tom Goldstein of Scotusblog conducted a much-cited study of the 96 race-related cases that have come before her. Like almost all judges, she has rejected a vast majority of the claims of racial discrimination that came to her. She dissented from her colleagues in only four of those cases. And in only one of them did she find racial discrimination where they did not. Even with what she calls her “Latina soul,” she saw almost every case pretty much as they did.