Brooks on Sotomayor

David Brooks wrote on Obama’s nomination of Sonia Sotomayor in NYTimes. He tries to convince the reader that Sonia’s records do not show any tendency towards decision making based on race. Here is what I liked in his note:
“Tom Goldstein of Scotusblog conducted a much-cited study of the 96 race-related cases that have come before her. Like almost all judges, she has rejected a vast majority of the claims of racial discrimination that came to her. She dissented from her colleagues in only four of those cases. And in only one of them did she find racial discrimination where they did not. Even with what she calls her “Latina soul,” she saw almost every case pretty much as they did.”