JUDGE SPARKLE, SAVE, THE CONSTITUTION, AND THE COST OF MISINFORMATION
ππ¨πππ π¦π£ππ₯πππ, SAVE, π§ππ ππ’π‘π¦π§ππ§π¨π§ππ’π‘, ππ‘π π§ππ ππ’π¦π§ π’π π ππ¦ππ‘ππ’π₯π ππ§ππ’π‘ By Grace Caroline Walker | Grace Notes – Thinking Out Loud. Fact-Check. Every so often a public conversation emerges that says far more about us than it does about the subject at hand. What begins as a discussion about a court ruling slowly morphs into something else entirely, revealing our assumptions, our biases, and occasionally our willingness to abandon facts in pursuit of a more convenient narrative. The recent discourse surrounding Judge Sparkle Sooknanan has become one of those moments. As I followed the commentary, I found myself less interested in the ruling itself than in the reaction it generated. There was a curious urgency among some critics to identify her first as "Trinidad-born" and only second, if at all, as a United States federal judge. The emphasis was difficult to miss. It was repeated so frequently that one could...
