re: #250 Occasional Reader

And if this were a sculptor applying for some sort of Arts Council grant and citing her “Latina heritage”, it would be one thing. But judges are, by the nature of the profession, supposed to be striving to put aside such influences. Yet in her own words, she seems to either shrug off her “heritage”-based prejudices, or outright trumpet them.

It sounds like you object to her admission that there is something to strive to put aside.

From the speech in the NYT:

I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate.