Okay, next candidate

Rico says he's no legal expert, but the internet is already weighing in against Judge Sotomayor; she's gonna have a long hard road to confirmation... She sounds smart and learned, but she doesn't quote well in print: In 2001, at the annual Judge Mario G. Olmos Law and Cultural Diversity Lecture, Sotomayor had this to say:

“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... Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences,” she said later, regarding non-white, female judges, “our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging."