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To: Dale Baker who wrote (115930)	7/20/2009 3:42:56 PM
From: Travis_Bickle	Read Replies (1) of 541977

That is the theory. I've had a number of jobs and I can't think of of a situation where my ancestry made me perform better than a WASP (and we are talking about ancestry, Sotomayor was born and raised in NYC). There was an instance when I was clerking that a judge referred to the "bad guys" in the opinion (it was a drug case) by their ethnicity ... before it was released I pointed out the court didn't generally do that and she was very grateful ... but I don't think it improved the opinion, it just saved her from maybe a 1 in 100 chance of being personally embarrassed. Other than that drafting an opinion has been drafting an opinion, writing tax regs is writing tax regs, drafting a trust is drafting a trust ... ancestry doesn't really play into it. I can't imagine why a wise latina would write a better tax regulation than a WASP, it is very formalized writing, as is drafting appellate court opinions.

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