Posted by
Always To The Right on Monday, July 13, 2009 4:12:28 PM
The confirmation hearings of Sonia Sotomayor begin today, in the wake of the reversal of Ricci
in which none of Sotomayor’s future colleagues concurred with her
reading of the law. Republicans plan a robust attack on Sotomayor’s Ricci
reasoning and a slew of statements that she has made over the last twenty years. However, as ABC reports, Hispanic interest groups say they will watch the GOP “like hawks” for any hint of racism
No one expects otherwise. Well, maybe one man does. Miguel Estrada
was nominated to the DC Appellate Court by George Bush in 2001, and got
filibustered by Democrats in 2003. The reason for their opposition was
explicitly racist, as this memo to Senator Durbin in 2001 shows
Democrats explicitly opposed Estrada because he was Latino. Do you
remember the huge outcry this created from these Hispanic interest
groups at the time this memo got revealed, and how they protested
Democratic racism and bigotry?
Yeah, neither do I, and neither does Miguel Estrada.