Supreme Court Policy and Rich vs. Poor

Sonia Sotomayor, the new nominee for the Supreme Court, will probably get away with saying that a Latina woman would probably make better decisions than a white male. Conservatives point out that if a white man made the same claim with regard to blacks, he would be pilloried in the press. And liberals retort that when Latina women help to run the world as white males have for 200 years, they probably won't say that either. So the situation is not symmetrical: the poor (the disadvantaged) can say what the rich (the advantaged) cannot. This illutrates two points. First, the underlying issue in most social questions these days is income redistribution. And second, many really don't want Supreme Court justices to faithfully follow their oath to "...administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich."