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POLITICO: White House concedes Sonia Sotomayor misspoke in 2001. UPDATE: Associated Press: ?So?

By Glenn Reynolds

POLITICO: White House concedes Sonia Sotomayor misspoke in 2001.

UPDATE: Associated Press: “Sotomayor did not live her entire childhood in a housing project in the South Bronx ? she spent most of her teenage years in a middle-class neighborhood, attending private school and winning scholarships to Princeton and then Yale. And Sotomayor’s life and lifestyle after law school largely resemble the background of many lawyers who rise to powerful positions in Washington.” But there’s also this: “Her ethnic consciousness was apparent in the earliest days of her career, in the New York City prosecutor’s office.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on May 29, 2009 (boomark / email).