Today’s New York Times has a detailed front page article describing Judge Sotomayor’s life story. For the most part, the article is a good account of what is indeed an inspiring tale of achievement in the face of considerable disadvantage. Unfortunately, the Times ignores or minimizes most of the problematic aspects of Sotomayor’s record. For example, it manages to quote relatively innocuous statements from Sotomayor’s 2001 speech, “A Latina Judge’s Voice,” without mentioning it’s most controversial passage: the one where the judge says “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn