... MacGillis, Amy Goldstein, and Robert Barnes offer "Sotomayor Speeches Woven With Ethnicity" (link). In the quotes they provide, among other things: she accuses some of those who reviewed her appeals court nomination a decade ago of stereotyping her; she invokes "sister power"; and she expresses her difficulties with assimilation. The authors refer to her "powerful ethnic pride", her "ethnic...
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Judge Sonia Sotomayor is Barack Obama's choice to replace David Souter on the US Supreme Court. Weak GOP talking points are here; Peter Baker and Jeff Zeleny (remember him?) have the New York Times' take here.
Was she selected only because of her outstanding grasp of legal issues? Or, was at least part of the selection due to the fact that she's a woman and a Hispanic? Were...