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U.S. Army Captain Michael Kelvington, commander of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, bows next to remains of Gulam Dostager, a member of Afghan Local Police who was killed in the blast of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) during the joint Tor Janda (Black Flag in Pashtu) operation, in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan May 25, 2012. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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U.S. Army Captain Michael Kelvington, commander of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, bows next to remains of Gulam Dostager, a member of Afghan Local Police who was killed in the blast of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) during the joint Tor Janda (Black Flag in Pashtu) operation, in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan May 25, 2012. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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WASHINGTON | Wed Jul 15, 2009 12:17pm EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor told her confirmation hearing on Tuesday that she "unequivocally" believed that good judges could come from any racial, ethnic or gender group.

Sotomayor's nomination has been clouded by a 2001 speech she gave in which she said a "wise Latina' might arrive at a better legal decision than a white man.

Offered the chance to explain the comments by the Senate Judiciary Committee's Democratic chairman Patrick Leahy, Sotomayor said she had been misconstrued.

"I do not believe that any ethnic, racial or gender group has an advantage in sound judgment," Sotomayor said, adding that she believed every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise "regardless of their background and life experience.".
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