Despite the exhaustive back-and-forth in the Sonia Sotomayor hearings so far over the “wise Latina” comment, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) is actually the first to bring up a very relevant point: no senator made an issue of the now-controversial comments in Sotomayor’s 1997 confirmation hearings. While Sotomayor most famously made the remark in 2001 at a Berkeley Law speech, she repeated the line in various, slightly altered forms from 1994 through 2005.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=140638