My question is where did they even get that number from?
Of the majority opinions that Judge Sonia Sotomayor has authored since becoming an appellate judge in 1998, three of her appellate opinions have been overturned by the Supreme Court.
Our search for appellate opinions by Sotomayor on the LexisNexis database returned 232 cases. That's a reversal rate of 1.3 percent.
and then
In any case, 60 percent of the cases the Supreme Court has reviewed is not a particularly high number. In any given term, the Supreme Court normally reverses a higher percentage of the cases it hears. During its 2006-2007 term, for instance, the Court reversed or vacated (which, for our purposes here, mean the same thing) 68 percent of the cases before it. The rate was 73.6 percent the previous term.
I presented this to my dear freind Court and he said, "That's bullshit."
I decided not to continue the discussion.
Thank you. Hey, whatever happened to that one picture with both you and I in it...but we can't see our faces? I know you know which one I am talking about so don't play coy with me...