As a hispanic woman, I am going to be PISSED if she doesn’t write her opinions in Spanish. I’m all good with the identity-politics if its actually backed up by a legitimate identity — which includes language (and I’m not talking about illiterate ebonic jibbidjive.) Everything else, I can buy at some Googleboyz “How to be Ethnically Cool” shop.

Although I am not a Latina, I have eaten at many Mexican restaurants. In fact, I have made guacamole and tortillas from scratch. Negro Modelo is a beer I drink (when I can’t get any of about 8 other beers.) I have also consumed numerous Cuban sandwiches and on those occasions when I drink margaritas, I enjoy them with salt.

I feel these experiences — along with my well-known soft and feminine side — allow me to judge fairly.

Gracias, mi gringo gordito guapo.

Of the remaining 6, 5 were overturned. In the other case, the ruling was upheld but in CNN’s words, here reasoning was unanimously faulted.

From AP:

As an appellate judge, she sided with the city of New Haven, Conn., in a discrimination case brought by white firefighters after the city threw out results of a promotion exam because two few minorities scored high enough. Ironically, that case is now before the Supreme Court.

I’ll be interested to hear what her reasoning was there. Her claim that we ought to honor the constitution is encouraging. Still, I wonder how consistently her rulings back it up. When it comes to certain issues where she perceives underlying moral injustice in her heart of hearts, does she try harder to find a way to rule the right thing?

I am not reflexively opposed to judges “ruling the right thing” on extremely rare occasions. But I do look for it to be rare roughly on the order of once in a lifetime.