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Re:Peter Thiel’s Embrace of Trump Has Silicon Valley Squirming by googlryas on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @05:20PM (#12132604)
Key quote is "a possibility I abhor less or discount less than my colleague Judge Cedarbaum, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging."

I don't think it's fair to argue that gender/national origin can only make a positive impact on judgement, and not a negative impact as well.

Re:Peter Thiel’s Embrace of Trump Has Silicon Valley Squirming by dragonwriter on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @05:42PM (#12132757)
> I don't think it's fair to argue that gender/national origin can only make a positive impact on judgement, and not a negative impact as well.

Sotomayor does not argue that. She only argues that personal experience and perhaps cultural/innate differences (she doesn't argue for the latter, just notes that she is less opposed to the idea that it is possible than another who has addressed the issue) make a difference in judging, while stating that she hopes that the difference in the experiences she has due to her background (from those of a white male) would lead to a positive outcome on a particular class of issues.