Sonia Sotomayor Shades Pam Bondi: That Law Faculty failed

New York (AP) – The judge of the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, questioning if Americans understand the difference between a king and a president, he told a multitude of the New York law school that improved civic education throughout the country would help people make better decisions.

Sotomayor, speaking in a discussion panel during a “summit of the Day of the Constitution and citizenship”, did not make comments that were openly political and did not directly approach any controversy of the moment. President Donald Trump was not mentioned.

However, at one point, he raised doubts about how much Americans are taught about civic in schools.

“We understand what the difference between a king and a president is? And I think that if people understood these things from the beginning, they would be more informed about what would be important in a democracy in terms of what people can or should not do,” he said.

She denounced the lack of education about civic and how democracy works, even giving its version of the famous anecdote of Ben Franklin at the end of the constitutional convention in Philadelphia when asked if the nation would have a republic or a monarchy.

“We have a republic, ma’am, if we can keep it,” he recalled that Franklin said.

Sotomayor described social networks “one of the greatest causes of misinformation on the Internet.”

“If you are only listening to one side of the story, you are not making an informed decision,” said Sotomayor. “The world is a complex place and problems are always difficult.”

Sotomayor also asked that civic education be required in law schools together with some public service, although he hastened to add that he would suggest a broad definition of it.

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“I don’t think it’s working for the government or anything like that,” he said, suggesting that he could mean doing something out of the classroom to make a difference and affect a community positively.

Without alluding to any current event, Justice also criticized those who emerge from the Law School to announce edicts against the freedom of expression of others.

“What comes to me is every time I listen to a representative trained by lawyers who says that we must criminalize freedom of expression in some way. I think for myself: ‘That law faculty failed,'” said Sotomayor. “If a student, who becomes a lawyer, has not been taught civic, then the Law Faculty has failed.”

Justice born in Bronx said she was interested in civic in the Grammar School, where she began to discuss the problems, and improved those skills when she learned to discuss both sides of a single subject.

At the end of his comments, he urged the students who saw in a large auditorium or saw it on video screens in overflow rooms to think about everything in the world that is wrong and “everything that is happening in the United States” and we realize “that adults have really spoiled it.”

She said today’s students to find solutions.