She Might Try to Take Her Own Piece of the Cake

Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's pick for the U.S. Supreme Court, is allegedly too closely associated with identity politics. See above...

Typically, the New York Times, often accused of being a liberal newspaper, seems keen to undermine Sotomayor. If you are a moderately conservative person, you have no more reliable mouthpiece than the New York Times.

No surprises, then, from the Times. The Wall Street Journal, however, has occasional spasms of open-mindedness, and its Best of the Web editor suggests that Sotomayor should be confirmed for her role in what's called with understandable glee, the Infamous Douche-Bag Case.

In August 2007, Judge Sonia Sotomayor sat on a panel that ruled against an appeal in Doninger v. Niehoff.

Avery Doninger was disqualified from running for school government at Lewis S. Mills High School in Burlington after she posted something on her blog, referring to the superintendent and other officials as "douche bags" because they canceled a battle of the bands she had helped to organize.

In their opinion, the judges said they were "sympathetic" to her disappointment... [but] decided they were not called upon to determine if school officials acted wisely.