Matthew J. Franck from Bench Memos summarizes the background material provided by Sotomayor for her Senate confirmation hearings this way:
In sum, we can say that Judge Sotomayor has, with few exceptions, given just three or four speeches to public audiences in her career—the same three or four, over and over and over. One of her repeated themes is on the virtue of race-conscious and sex-conscious bias in judging. Like her other themes, this one cannot be "walked back" by White House claims that she "misspoke" or could have made her point differently. She is, on the evidence of her speeches, a great self-absorbed bore, a mediocrity as a writer, and a polished practitioner of identity politics.Spelling, writing, and accuracy with names is not necessarily a pre-requisite for a Supreme Court Justice, but it does reflect a lazy habit (at least with the spelling and names, which are easily checked) that is pause-worthy, especially if the candidate's energies are being funneled exclusively into the third area - activism. The reason this is such a troubling combination is because lazy thinking combined with ideological rigidness is ripe for not being able to see the "unintended consequences" of her decisions, and even worse, not caring - something Obama said he wanted.