The Wise Latina Stays On Track

All of this is silly, of course. Sonia Sotomayor never intended to disparage anyone's judgment, but rather to just state the obvious, that a wise Latina is likely to spot certain biases before others do (and certainly anti-Latina, anti-Latino, or anti-woman biases), simply based on life experience, the same way that, say, Irish Catholics can more-easily spot anti-Irish biases than the general population, or the way that Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia or Sam Alito, for example, can spot anti-Italian biases. The fact that the Republicans keep hammering away at this point shows a dispiriting, misogynist Latino-hatred that will serve them poorly at the polls anywhere women or Latinos are registered to vote.