The judge of the North American Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor, visiting Spain, was received this Monday by King Felipe VI in La Zarzuela and participated in a colloquium at the Constitutional Court to celebrate the 8M in advance, an event in which she argued that the presence of women in judicial bodies provides greater agility and effectiveness in resolutions, because they have a “more practical” mentality. Sotomayor intervened in said colloquium just a few hours before the decision of the North American Supreme Court was made public in favor of the Republican candidate Donald Trump, whom she has authorized to continue his race to try for re-election in next November's elections.
Sotomayor, born in Puerto Rico and raised in the New York neighborhood of the Bronx, was the third woman to join the United States Supreme Court and the first of Latin origin to reach that position. She was appointed by former Democratic President Barack Obama. Now, said court is made up of five men and four women. Sotomayor explained that in the North American federal judicial system there are 35% women, although the percentage fluctuates depending on the presidential mandates, because President Biden has made numerous appointments of women, while in the previous period Trump “did not give them the same importance to this matter†.
Judge Sotomayor explained that there are “numerous studies” on the evolution of the North American judicial system, with data on the changes that the increase in the presence of women in its different instances has produced. “With women in court,” she said, “she changed the attitude of justice in specific matters, such as the attitude of judges regarding the treatment of women during divorce proceedings, or in economic matters.” On the other hand, she explained that in the Supreme Court itself there were “very tense” relations between the magistrates for years, who “almost did not speak to each other, and they had so much hatred that many reproaches were made in public, in the media.” of communicationâ€. That “is not seen today,” after the arrival of women to the court. “It is true that the first woman who joined changed the internal relationships, she also said, and now we spend a lot of time together not only at work, but to get to know each other better as human beings.â€
The president of the Constitutional Court, Cándido Conde-Pumpido, who led the colloquium together with the vice president, Inmaculada Montalbán, stressed that the experience described by Sotomayor is also partly that of the Spanish court. “I feel very proud,” said Conde-Pumpido, “that during my presidency there were five women on the court, almost parity.” In this period – she added – “I have observed that women go more quickly to the core of the problem, they display their knowledge less in a more or less vain way, and they go directly to the issue, and All of this is a virtue of the contribution of women to the judicial debate, who do not beat around the bush, and as Judge Sotomayor has said, they are more practical.â€
Sotomayor also explained that she has observed throughout her career that numerous appointments in judicial and prosecutorial careers occur because internal promotions are decided by men, and they tend to “choose those who acted like them, who were men.” Presidents, he added, are usually men, and they choose “those who most resemble their own image.” To better fight for equality, Sotomayor also argued that women should provide more help to each other, “like men do”: “We don't support each other enough to pursue higher positions.”
Regarding the type of matters that reach the North American Supreme Court, Sotomayor stressed that this court primarily resolves discrepancies that arise between judicial instances, divided into 13 circuits. “Sometimes the differences are between three and two of them, but we also assume cases in which the divergence is between one and one, if the issue is very relevant. You are, like the world, waiting for the Trump case – there will be more than one, he added – and in this (first) there was a difference between two States, or three, but the question It was so important that we had to resolve it†, in relation to the continuity of the electoral career of the Republican candidate.
Regarding artificial intelligence, Sotomayor stated that “it will affect” the judicial system in general and possibly also gender equality in particular. “Some lawyers have told me,” he explained, “that sometimes artificial intelligence has given them better answers than some of their law firm partners.” Sotomayor also highlighted the importance of society “understanding and wanting to support” the decisions of judges, and it is doubtful that artificial intelligence can provide this work of persuasion, because “a machine cannot do what we can do.”
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