Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor on the second day of her confirmation hearings explained the well-publicized "wise Latina" comments she has made in the past.
"I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life," Sotomayor said in a speech at 2001 at the University of California, Berkeley, law school. She made similar statements at other such events. Of course, at her Senate hearing she did the usual backpedalling.
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And what happens when Judge Sotomayor tries to interpret the law? Four out of the five times her decisions have come before the Supreme Court, the court reversed them. It ruled that she had made errors in statutory interpretation — misapplying the law. And the one time the court upheld her decision, it ruled unanimously that her reasoning was faulted. Sotomayor may have saved baseball, but her batting average with the Supreme Court puts her in the bush leagues.
https://www.npr.org/2009/05/27/104601806/sotomayor-needs-to-judge-facts-not-feelings
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