Sotomayor is affirmative action personified. She rose through her legal career as an attorney, then as a judge, because she was a “wise Latina”, to use that term she has used. If she were white, she would not be on the Supreme Court today. Her career would not have sent her on such a path.
Perhaps her dissent was so strident because for her, it’s personal.
Yet she doesn’t acknowledge the other side, namely, that with benefits given to people such as her, that someone else more deserving was denied those same benefits. After all, there are only so many slots available in college, in law firms, on federal courts, and on the Supreme Court. By definition, a less qualified person such as herself pushed out someone else more deserving.
Well look on the the bright side. Nero will have something to chastise the Justices for at next years State of the Union whine fest.