Wash. Times makes discredited claim that Sotomayor policy-making remark "runs counter to ... American legal tradition"
May 28, 2009 3:26 pm ET
SUMMARY: The Washington Times claimed that Judge Sonia Sotomayor's statement that the " 'Court of Appeals is where policy is made' ... runs counter to more than 200 years of American legal tradition." In fact, Sotomayor's explanation is in line with federal appellate courts' "policy making" role, as numerous legal scholars have noted.
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