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As the confirmation process for Sonia Sotomayor moves into Congress, one might ask the question, "Who is Sonia Sotomayor?"
The answers will provide a wide range of personal and judicial trivia and data. Yet the question being asked is really, "Who will Sonia Sotomayor be as a Supreme Court Justice?" People are betting that she will lean "left" or she will "vote with the majority most of the time." It all depends on your predilections as to how you prognosticate.
Is she smart or smarmy? Is she intelligent or indulgent? And why has she made statements about ethnicity and gender that would automatically disqualify any white male?
Actually, all such questions are moot. It really doesn't matter who Sonia Sotomayor is because the one-party rule of the U.S. ensures that any review proceedings are purely window dressing for the public.
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