"One can certainly justify [detaining suspected enemy combatants and giving them different process] under precedents and current law."

Said Sonia Sotomayor in a speech in 2004 (before the Supreme Court decided the Hamdi and Padilla cases).

The same speech showed an appreciation for racial colorblindness:

She observed that anyone in the world watching television on Sept. 11, 2001, "could not miss the diversity of colors and hues" of the New Yorkers scrambling to evacuate the destruction of the World Trade Center. She said "on September 11, we stood as Americans and as human beings and saw past our ethnic differences and responded to a common threat with a complete giving of heart, soul and for some, of life."