In my new Confirmation Tales post, I explore the discovery in 2009 of Sonia Sotomayor’s observation that she “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’t lived that life.” From my opening:

The intense controversy that Sotomayor’s “wise Latina” comment aroused stands in sharp contrast to the lack of attention that Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s incendiary positions received during her confirmation process sixteen years earlier. The difference arose from two dramatic and interrelated changes that had occurred in the meantime.

See if you can guess what those “two dramatic and interrelated changes” are.

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