“Justice Sonia Sotomayor has spoken extensively about the role of affirmative action in her rise from a public housing project to the Supreme Court. It is no secret her personal experience influenced her 58-page dissent in the Court’s recent decision upholding Michigan’s voter-approved law to ban affirmation action in college admissions.
“Conservative Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist, an adamant proponent of states’ rights, surprised everyone when he ruled states had to abide by the Family and Medical Leave Act, prompting some to wonder whether the plight of his recently divorced daughter, a single mom, had influenced his views.
“Justice Harry Blackmun penned the Roe v. Wade opinion decriminalizing abortion six years after his daughter got pregnant, dropped out of college and got married. She ultimately had a miscarriage — but did the fact that his daughter’s fate was forever changed by the unplanned pregnancy influence his views? Maybe.” *
Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) and Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/AnaKasparian) break it down on The Young Turks.
* Read more here from http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/06/17/study-judges-with-daughters-are-more-likely-to-rule-in-favor-of-women/