Grandmother, a relative, a friend whether its a spouse there are always people who come to aid you in your life. Recognizing it and being grateful is so important. You have to really understand when youre being motivated by your own feelings rather than by the law. I cant tell you how many times when i was a lawyer and sometimes even now you read an opinion below and you say whats motivating this . Is it the law or a person feeling . Rose whats the danger here . The danger is that you think of judges as computers, which we are not. We are human beings with strengths and weaknesses with limit takes in our Life Experiences. You want us to be aware of both those things. The good and the bad, the biases and the prejudices so that we actually work consciously at not letting them influence our outcomes. That we dont assume that were right about our biases. That we dont assume that were not human beings unaffected by our emotions. And that we work hard. Rose associate Justice Sonia sotomayor
Friend whether its a spouse there are always people who come to aid you in your life. Recognizing it and being grateful is so important. You have to really understand when youre being motivated by your own feelings rather than by the law. I cant tell you how many times when i was a lawyer and sometimes even now you read an opinion below and you say whats motivating this . Is it the law or a person feeling . Rose whats the danger here . The danger is that you think of judges as computers, which we are not. We are human beings with strengths and weaknesses with limit takes in our Life Experiences. You want us to be aware of both those things. The good and the bad, the biases and the prejudices so that we actually work consciously at not letting them influence our outcomes. That we dont assume that were right about our biases. That we dont assume that were not human beings unaffected by our emotions. And that we work hard. Rose associate Justice Sonia sotomayor for the hour, next. Caption
Friend whether its a spouse there are always people who come to aid you in your life. Recognizing it and being grateful is so important. You have to really understand when youre being motivated by your own feelings rather than by the law. I cant tell you how many times when i was a lawyer and sometimes even now you read an opinion below and you say whats motivating this . Is it the law or a person feeling . Rose whats the danger here . The danger is that you think of judges as computers, which we are not. We are human beings with strengths and weaknesses with limit takes in our Life Experiences. You want us to be aware of both those things. The good and the bad, the biases and the prejudices so that we actually work consciously at not letting them influence our outcomes. That we dont assume that were right about our biases. That we dont assume that were not human beings unaffected by our emotions. And that we work hard. Rose associate Justice Sonia sotomayor for the hour, next. Caption
Friend whether its a spouse there are always people who come to aid you in your life. Recognizing it and being grateful is so important. You have to really understand when youre being motivated by your own feelings rather than by the law. I cant tell you how many times when i was a lawyer and sometimes even now you read an opinion below and you say whats motivating this . Is it the law or a person feeling . Rose whats the danger here . The danger is that you think of judges as computers, which we are not. We are human beings with strengths and weaknesses with limit takes in our Life Experiences. You want us to be aware of both those things. The good and the bad, the biases and the prejudices so that we actually work consciously at not letting them influence our outcomes. That we dont assume that were right about our biases. That we dont assume that were not human beings unaffected by our emotions. And that we work hard. Rose associate Justice Sonia sotomayor for the hour, next. Caption
Children, a loving mother, all the things that have shaped you, success after success. When you make a decision how does that influence you . And most importantly, or equally important, the idea of being hispanic. Because everybody wants everybodys talking about latinos today but everybody before that understood that that kind of experience was part of had become america. That is what america is. Can i give you an example . Ill take it away from myself. That was case a number of years ago where a 13yearold girl had been strip searched to look for an aspirin in a nodrug school. And her parents sued it was a Public School claiming this was an unreasonable search and seizure. That there wasnt adequate probable cause to search her in that way. During the argument, some of my now male colleagues i wasnt on the court then started asking questions suggesting that being strip searched was no different than being than unpressing in a gym. Justice ginsburg was heard to say after that argument th