I realized that Sotomayor does something I’ve heard before. She employs a very common strategy in the politically correct world of college campuses. In order to defend her position on racial preferences, she must first deny that she understands the terms. In her world, merit and ethnicity are synonymous.

Therefore, one’s “experience” being Hispanic is equal with a high LSAT score. As Sotomayor points out, Hispanics and other minority students — though not Asians — score lower on many standardized tests. She acknowledges these “statistics.” Instead of attacking the real culprits of this discrepancy, likely poverty, poor education, and parental education levels, she believes the system itself must bend to accommodate “fairness.”