Troubled by Judge Sotomayor

I always hate to have even close to the same opinion as people like Ann Coulter, but I do have some serious reservations about Pres. Obama's nomination for Supreme Court Justice.

Judge Sotomayor has said, and I quote,

"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’t lived that life,"

Now, some of Obama's supporters have given explanations such as this,

"Charles J. Ogletree Jr., a Harvard law professor and an adviser to Mr. Obama, said Judge Sotomayor’s remarks were appropriate. Professor Ogletree said it was “obvious that people’s life experiences will inform their judgments in life as lawyers and judges” because law is more than “a technical exercise,” citing Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.’s famous aphorism: “The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.”

I do not disagree with Mr. Ogletree at all. I do think that people's life experiences will to some extent affect their judgements, however, nothing he says seems to go to the heart of her comment. She says, and feel free to disagree or point out where I am misunderstanding her statement, that one judge would 'more often than not' rule better from the bench, or be a better judge if they were a) hispanic and b) female. At least, they would make a better judge than a white male, I guess we cannot extrapolate where a black man/woman, white woman, hispanic man, etc. etc. etc. fall on her scale of who makes the best decisions.

As much as I feel that this process has become too obstructionist, I would have to oppose her confirmation, if it were up to me.