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To: Travis_Bickle who wrote (115933)	7/20/2009 5:21:21 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541927

Two points - a NY Puerto Rican still lives in a bilingual culture, unlike whatever ancestry we may have where the original languages disappeared one or more generations ago. Second, writing an appellate opinion may be formal but coming to the legal conclusions is much more than mechanical. I don't buy the myth that judges are just fancy computers who process cases and spit out results based on fixed legal formulas. If that were the case, there would never be important Appeals Court or SC decisions that change legal practice. For me, all other things being equal (and S's resume is more than sufficient) I'd rather have S there balancing out some of the less diverse judges. What can it hurt if she is qualified anyway? Personally, I think it's a plus but I am somewhat biased having lived a lot in multicultural and multilingual situations.