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Sotomayor rebuts critics of ‘wise Latina’ quote

 
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Published: July 14, 2009    Comment on this article Leave a comment

WASHINGTON — Sonia Sotomayor, the nation’s first Hispanic U.S. Supreme Court nominee, vowed loyalty to "the impartiality of our justice system” Monday, confronting Republican skeptics at Senate hearings.

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"My personal and professional experiences help me to listen and understand, with the law always commanding the result in every case,” the 55-year old Sotomayor said.

Her comments amounted to a polite but firm rebuttal to Republicans who have criticized her 2001 comment that a "wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences” might make better rulings than a white male.

Unlike senators who will vote on her appointment, Sotomayor made no overt reference to her place in history as the daughter of Puerto Rican parents who moved to New York. Instead, she said her life has been "uniquely American,” and she recalled a childhood in a south Bronx housing project.

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