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WaPo: GOP Vote Against Sotomayor May Alienate Hispanics
The Washington Post says the 28 GOP Senators voting against Sotomayor run the risk of alienating Hispanic voters — I say good for them.
The Republican party should leave the identity politics to the left. Sonia Sotomayor’s judicial philosophy is not appropriate for the highest court in the land. Moreover, she’s just not that bright.
Republicans who allow Sotomayor’s gender and ethnicity to influence their vote are a disgrace. The SCOTUS should be reserved for the best and brightest our country has to offer regardless of their gender or ethnicity.
The left pretends to be so race conscious while at the same time using race as a basis for making pretty much every decision.
The best way to create racial harmony is to ignore race and promote the best qualified people to do the job.
Liberals automatically assume that America’s Hispanic population will be angry at the GOP’s rejection of Sotomayor, which is itself a racist conclusion to come to.
It’s reminiscent of Barbara Boxer’s assumption that all black people support her phony global warming theories and her cap and tax plan.
Anyone who thinks the GOP is voting against Sotomayor because she’s a woman or a Latina is a nut and doesn’t belong in the Republican party anyway.
The idea that certain people should be automatically supported because of their gender or ethnicity is just another form of racism and Republicans should have nothing to do with it.
Sotomayor Is Member Of ‘La Raza’
According to WorldNetDaily, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is a member of the controversial Hispanic organization known as “La Raza” which promotes amnesty and open border policies.
I can’t imagine this could be much of a shock to anyone that she would be a member of that group.
As I said yesterday, republicans should vigorously make their case against her to the American people based on her long record of judicial activism.
The area we should steer clear of is in talking about stuff like this. The democrats are going to hammer the fact that she’s a Latina, blah, blah, blah.
For us to take the bait and start talking about her membership in La Raza is inevitably going to escalate until something is said that offends Hispanics and the democrats are going to jump on it.
Obama chose this woman because of her race and her gender. Republicans need to talk about her record and leave the phony identity politics to the democrats.
Let’s stay focused on her judicial activism and save the immigration debates for another time.
-Chris Jones
Obama Picks Sotomayor
President Obama announced today that federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor is his choice to replace Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court.
Here’s what the AP has about her:
Sotomayor is a self-described "Newyorkrican" who grew up in a Bronx housing project after her parents moved to New York from Puerto Rico. She has dealt with diabetes since age 8 and lost her father at age 9, growing up under the care of her mother in humble surroundings. As a girl, inspired by the Perry Mason television show, she knew she wanted to be a judge.
A graduate of Princeton University and Yale Law School, a former prosecutor and private attorney, Sotomayor became a federal judge for the Southern District of New York in 1992.
As a judge, she has a bipartisan pedigree. She was first appointed by a Republican, President George H.W. Bush, then named an appeals judge by President Bill Clinton in 1997.
At her Senate confirmation hearing more than a decade ago, she said, "I don’t believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it."
In one of her most memorable rulings as federal district judge, Sotomayor essentially salvaged baseball in 1995, ruling with players over owners in a labor strike that had led to the cancellation of the World Series.
As an appellate judge, she sided with the city of New Haven, Conn., in a discrimination case brought by white firefighters after the city threw out results of a promotion exam because two few minorities scored high enough. Ironically, that case is now before the Supreme Court.
Just because she was first appointed by President George H.W. Bush doesn’t mean she has a “bipartisan pedigree” like the AP claims.
Make no mistake about it, Sotomayor is a liberal through and through. One only has to look at her judicial record to know this.
She’ll be a reliable tool of labor unions (like our president) and will rule in favor of minorities not because they have the best legal case but because she has “empathy.”
Having said all that, Obama can nominate anyone he wants and at this moment in time Republicans can do little to stand in the way.
All things considered Obama could have picked someone much worse. Sotomayor is not going to change the balance of the court so it’s really not that big a deal.
It’s the next SCOTUS pick that’s going to change the game.
As liberal as Sotomayor is, I suspect Obama’s next pick is going to make her seem to the right of Scalia.
-Chris Jones
New Republic: Sotomayor May Not Be Liberal Enough For Supreme Court
The New Republic makes the case that president Obama should be careful about appointing Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.
According to TNR, she may not be liberal enough. The far left is concerned that she may not be strong enough to move the court “in a different direction.”
Sounds like the kind of judge republicans should get behind. She may turn out to be the lesser of many evils.
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