So, OK, Judge Sonia Sotomayor finally confessed Tuesday, maybe she goofed when she uttered that now infamous line about a "wise Latina" reaching "a better conclusion than a white male."
It was "a rhetorical flourish that fell flat," she told the Senate Judicary Committee.
Sotomayor explained that she was trying at the time to play off an earlier comment by former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor that a wise old man and a wise old woman would reach the same results in a case.
"I was trying to play on her words," Sotomayor said. "My play afell flat. It was bad."
But in no way, she said, would she allow here "personal views and sympathies" to guide her rulings on the Supreme Court.
As we write in today's lead editorial, we think this whole thing has been overblown. As a jurist, Sotomayor has a 17-year track record of ruling according to the law.
But if you were troubled by her "wise Latina" comment before, has anything she's said to the Senate committee changed your mind?
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