No. This isn't true. Like I said in a previous post, there are a handful of better quality choices and maybe one or two better "diversity" choices. But, no. There aren't many, MUCH better, MUCH more intellectually accomplished jurists alive than Sotomayor. Sorry.
There are maybe a dozen, half of which have never sat on a federal bench. There are precious few "standouts" on the CoA. I've mentioned the ones worth noting, though perhaps we'd throw in Calabresi, and one or two on the D.C. Circuit. There really aren't that many CoA judges clearly superior to Sotomayor.




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-- decision pending as of 5/26/2009 [ now reversed 5-4 - sic ]



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