There is nothing halfway about her. As a judge, she is tough, relentless. She does not telegraph her leanings by going easy on one lawyer while being excessively hard-nosed on another. Instead, her courtroom demeanor is that of an equal-opportunity buzz saw.
Everyone in Judge Sotomayor’s courtroom eventually bleeds a little.
That is the picture that emerges from an audio recording of a Dec. 10, 2007, oral argument presided over by Sotomayor and two other federal appeals-court judges in a controversial reverse-discrimination case called Ricci v. DeStefano.
That same case is now pending before the US Supreme Court, with a decision – and possible reversal of Sotomayor – expected later this month.
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