<![CDATA[Despite Sotomayor Nomination, Latino Academic Gap Still Huge]]>

1.0 link 208319 <![CDATA[Despite Sotomayor Nomination, Latino Academic Gap Still Huge]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marcelo-m-suarezorozco-and-carola-suarezorozco/despite-sotomayor-nominat_b_208319.html President Obama's nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court is inviting glossy-eyed "only in America" commentary domestically and throughout the world. But as the likely confirmation storm gathers force, biography will surely be pitted against ideology. To her opponents Judge Sotomayor's judicial philosophy -- particularly her flirtation with identity politics -- raises red flags of judicial activism and the impulse to legislate from the bench. To her supporters, the President above all, biography trumps everything else.

The President's...

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