Sotomayor Part of Anti-Bork Group
Tags: Leftist Groups, Supreme Court.
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The hits keep coming:
A Puerto Rican civil rights organization advised by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor campaigned against seating conservative Robert Bork on the high court in the late 1980s, according to new documents that shed light on the group that’s become a key focus of Republicans questioning Sotomayor’s fitness to be a justice.
The Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund officially opposed GOP nominee Bork in 1987, “because of the threat he poses to the civil rights of the Latino community,” its president reported in one of several documents from the group that the Senate Judiciary Committee released Wednesday. The 350-plus pages of material offer little evidence about Sotomayor’s role in the cases and causes the organization, now known as LatinoJustice PRLDEF, took up while she served on its board from 1980 until 1992.
So, she’s part of a group which slandered Judge Bork over his views, and now she wants to be on the Supreme Court? I don’t think so.
Of course, she’ll get confirmed – the questions are rising and its clear that Sotomayor is unfit to be a Justice, but Democrats will not want to hand Obama a defeat like this early on and the GOP can’t even slow things down, even if we wanted to “do a Democrat” and try for a filibuster…we simply lack the votes.
But we can hang this vote on vulnerable Democrats – she’s someone who has un-American views about justice and who thinks race more important than truth…for some moderate Democrats, this vote will be hard to explain to the folks back home.
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7 Responses to “Sotomayor Part of Anti-Bork Group”
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So, she’s part of a group which slandered Judge Bork over his views…
So, what specific slander did this group commit against Bork?
You have to understand, kmg, that in Mark’s world, “criticism” is often redefined as “slander.” (Unless, of course, it’s not a conservative being criticized.) At any rate, the fact that Mark seems to believe criticizing Bork is some sort of disqualifier (and that at the same time, even highly dishonest criticism of Sotomayor does not rise to the level of “slander”) says a lot about his hysteria over Sotomayor.
Orlando:
Bingo. In fact, this is the perfect example of a Blogs for Bush posting attempting to say one thing, but actually conveying something entirely different.
When I first read this post, my first thought was: “Strange. I would think that opposing Bork would make her MORE qualified to be a Supreme Court Justice.” And then I remembered where I was: visiting a blog where black means white, up means down and George W. Bush was a great president.
It’s a straaange world here.
I just figured that there would have to be some specifics. Otherwise it is just regurgitating talking points.
Still no specifics, so it must just be talking points.
No, you are just too insignificant to bother with and too ideologically rigid to accept the truth when you hear it.
What truth, amazona? The accusation was made that this group slandered Bork. What was the slander?