Sotomayor: Women Make Better Judges Than Men Too

It's not just Latina women that make better judges than white men, but women in general (from Don Surber):

In defending Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s “wise Latina” remark, her supporters unveil a previous offense.

Interesting.

It turns out that her 2001 comment was not just a slip of the tongue.

She said something similar in 1994.

That’s not wise.

In 2001 she said: “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.”

1n 1994, she said: “Justice O’Connor has often been cited as saying that “a wise old man and a wise old woman reach the same conclusion in dueling cases. I am not so sure Justice O’Connor is the author of that line since Professor Resnik attributes the line to Supreme Court Justice Coyle. I am not so sure that I agree with the statement. First, if Prof. Martha Minnow is correct, there can never be a universal definition of ‘wise.’ Second, I would hope that a wise woman with the richness of her experience would, more often than not, reach a better conclusion.”

So women are better than men and Hispanics are better than non-Hispanic whites.
Only a racist or a sexist would not call those statements racist and sexist.

One incident, such as we had with the 2001 statement, is a data point that can take you anywhere. Two incidents, when you add in the 1994 statement, is a trend line and that points in an ugly direction.