Pot, Meet Kettle
By CHARLES M. BLOW
NYT
Fringe Republican race-baiting on Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court nominee, has fallen flat.
According to polls, most Americans want to see her confirmed.
Furthermore, the picture that those Republicans painted of Sotomayor doesn’t seem to be supported by her actions. The Scotusblog examined her court of appeals decisions in race-related cases and found that she rejected claims of discrimination 80 percent of the time.
Even so, she apologized, in a sense, for the “wise Latina woman” line that got many on the right so bent out of shape. Senator Dianne Feinstein said that Sotomayor told her that it was a “poor choice of words.”
(More here.)
NYT
Fringe Republican race-baiting on Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court nominee, has fallen flat.
According to polls, most Americans want to see her confirmed.
Furthermore, the picture that those Republicans painted of Sotomayor doesn’t seem to be supported by her actions. The Scotusblog examined her court of appeals decisions in race-related cases and found that she rejected claims of discrimination 80 percent of the time.
Even so, she apologized, in a sense, for the “wise Latina woman” line that got many on the right so bent out of shape. Senator Dianne Feinstein said that Sotomayor told her that it was a “poor choice of words.”
(More here.)
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