Stuart
Taylor explains at the National Journal.
Excerpt:
Sotomayor also referred to the cardinal
duty of judges to be impartial as a mere "aspiration because it denies the
fact that we are by our experiences making different choices than others."
And she suggested that "inherent physiological or cultural differences"
may help explain why "our gender and national origins may and will make a
difference in our judging."
So accustomed have we become to identity
politics that it barely causes a ripple when a highly touted Supreme Court
candidate, who sits on the federal Appeals Court in New York, has seriously
suggested that Latina women like her make better judges than white males.
George
Will also
examines the identity politics of the Sototmayor nomination.