FACT CHECK: Don't quote Sotomayor on that, Senator... Leahy creative rewriting of history...

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D99ED63G1&show_article=1

WASHINGTON (AP) - In endorsing Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor,
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy did some creative
rewriting of history. And he put quote marks around it.

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LEAHY SAID: "You said that, quote, you 'would hope that a wise Latina
woman with the richness of her experiences would reach wise
decisions.'"

THE FACTS: If that's all Sotomayor said, the quote would barely have
mattered to opponents of her nomination. The actual quote, delivered
in a 2001 speech to law students at the University of California at
Berkeley, was: "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the
richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better
conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."

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