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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (112195)	5/29/2009 2:51:07 PM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541635

I don't know of many cases where people go from dire poverty to the pinnacle of academic and professional success. How could anyone argue that that kind experience does not enhance and improve judgement especially for the kind of skills needed on the SC. You must be a big fan of Clarence Thomas. en.wikipedia.org Early life and education Clarence Thomas was born in Pin Point, Georgia, a small, impoverished African American community.[2] His family are descendents of American Slaves in the American South. His father left his family when he was two years old.[3] After a house fire left them homeless, Thomas and his younger brother Myers were taken to Savannah, Georgia, where their mother worked as a domestic employee. Thomas' sister Emma stayed behind with relatives in Pin Point. When Thomas was 7, the family moved in with his maternal grandfather, Myers Anderson, and Anderson's wife, Christine, in Savannah.[4] Anderson had little formal education, but had built a fuel oil business that also sold ice. Thomas calls his grandfather "the greatest man I have ever known."[4] When Thomas was 10, Anderson started taking the family to help at a farm every day from sunrise to sunset.[4] His grandfather believed in hard work and self-reliance; he would counsel Thomas to "never let the sun catch you in bed."

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (112195)	5/29/2009 3:20:38 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541635

I was not talking about any set of experiences. I was talking about Sotomayor's particular set of experiences that would enhance the quality of her judgement. I understood that. I just don't think that any set of experiences, including hers, is key to developing judgment. Experiences are simply input. I think you are mistaking input for process. How you process that and other input and come to a determination is more germane to quality judgment. If that judgment processor doesn't work well, say, for example, it lacks analytics or discipline, then no input of whatever quality will produce a quality judgment. To the extent that life experiences involve judgments made and to the extent that those judgments, whether quality judgments or mistakes are evaluated so as to hone one's judgment processor, they may contribute to quality judgments. But the experiences themselves are merely part of the input pool. They are just as likely to produce bias, limited thinking, and emotional baggage as anything helpful to the process of making judgments.