Sotomayor: My women-only club isn’t discriminatory but I’m quitting it anyway
Makes sense. Who among us hasn’t distanced themselves from something they personally have no problem with?
Sotomayor said she resigned from the Belizean Grove to prevent the issue from becoming a distraction in her confirmation hearings.
In a letter to Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the federal appeals court judge said she is convinced that the club does not practice “invidious discrimination” and that her membership in it did not violate judicial ethics.
But she said she didn’t want questions about it to “distract anyone from my qualifications and record.”
Federal judges are bound by a code that says they shouldn’t join any organization that discriminates by race, sex, religion or nationality.
I get that the uproar over this is a reprisal for the left wetting itself over Alito belonging to a men-only club, but isn’t this kind of … stupid? The hallmark of true discrimination is the shared sentiment that those who don’t belong to the empowered group are somehow inferior.
