>>>As to competence, how about Sotomayor's 60% reversal rate? I would say that puts her in the incompetent category with a slam dunk. Forget her blatant sexism and racism, she simply is not good enough to be one of the Supremes. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/27/60-reversal-of-sotomayor-rulings-gives-fodder-to-f/
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>>That's a misleading statistic. Five (yes, just 5) of her rulings have gone to the Supreme Court and they overturned 3 of them. What about the hundreds that either didn't go to the court or were refused cert?
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>I'm not good with math. What does 3 over 5 shake out to?

I didn't say the math was wrong; I said it was misleading.

One key point is that the Supreme Court tends to overrule 75% of the decisions they choose to review, so in fact 60% reversal of reviewed cases is below average. But beside that, there's the question of how many of her decisions were chosen for review. (The Supreme Court gets to choose which cases to review among those appealed to it.)

Tamar