Will Puerto Rican foods cloud Justice Sotomayor's decisions?

As someone who has bunches of Puerto Ricans in my family, my guess would be yes. G-d knows it influences my judgment when I eat it.

Sotomayor also claimed: “For me, a very special part of my being Latina is the mucho platos de arroz, gandoles y pernir — rice, beans and pork — that I have eaten at countless family holidays and special events.”

This has prompted some Republicans to muse privately about whether Sotomayor is suggesting that distinctive Puerto Rican cuisine such as patitas de cerdo con garbanzo — pigs’ tongue and ears — would somehow, in some small way influence her verdicts from the bench.

And don't even bother trying to say her name correctly you asswipes, we know you don't mean it. h/t everyone.