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Judge Sonia Sotomayor is Obama's nominee to fill the the Supreme Court Justice vacancy. Sotomayor is a woman. And she's Hispanic. Two characteristics that have not gone unnoticed. In 2001 Sotomayor disagreed with the notion that a wise old man and a wise old woman would reach the same conclusion. “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than no…