Republicans Attack Sotomayor On Race

The Republicans have begun their attack on Sotomayor in attempt to block her nomination for U.S. Supreme Court Justice. They try to convince the American public that the race or ethnicity should not be part of the process for nomination.

A Texas Republican, Senator John Cornyn argued that,

“The American ideal is that justice should be colorblind...” -John Cornyn

“As we see people like Barack Obama achieve the highest office in the land and Judge Sotomayor’s own nomination to the highest court, I think it is harder and harder to see the justifications for race-conscious decisions across the board.” - John Cornyn


In other words, the Senator is persuading the American people that the judicial nomination is different from the General Election. The race may be part of criteria for executive and legislative branch; however, the race should not be Judicial branch since the judge must be bias free toward any races.

Republicans are also concerned about the Sotomayor's long record as a liberal activist. But they haven't argued about that point yet.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/30/us/politics/30affirm.html?hp

previous posts on Sotomayor:

Obama Nominates Sotomayor
Sotomayor Expects Opposition
Abortion Right Activists Skeptical of Sotomayor

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Comment By Taka Laka:

Again and again, why are Republicans attacking Sotomayor based on her race? They are right that the Supreme Court Justice shouldn't be voted based on race, but their attack strategy means nothing in politics. For this reason, Republicans are only assuring the public who already opposes Sotomayor nomination.

Meanwhile, their arguments are doing nothing to persuading the supporters of Sotomayor's nomination. In fact, the Republicans arguments will be questioned by its opponent because majority of American History shows that the Supreme Court Justice was biased towards the other race, and most of them were Whites. Hence, the arguments make the Republicans a hypocrite in the general public eyes.

Yes, the actions from the past shouldn't be used as arguments because the world is different now. But in general, the Americans will look into the past and they will be persuaded by it.

Like I have been saying, the Republicans need to move away from their old political strategy. Well, I don't want them to use the dirty strategy that they have been using in the last 2 General Elections.

Anyway, after looking into her judicial records, I believe Sotomayor is qualified as Supreme Court Justice. I am still little skeptical about her, but her overall records are fairly strong. After all, someone has to balance out Justice Robert.