Undoubtedly, Sonia Sotomayor’s writings as a student at Princeton would make good reading, as would Hillary Clinton’s senior paper at Wellesley (which is closed to the public). But Sotomayor is now 54 years old. If I may paraphrase Wordsworth, the child may indeed be mother to the woman, but surely the woman’s activities over the past 30 years, especially her judicial decisions, are much more relevant.