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SESSIONS: JUDGE SOTOMAYOR IS A RACIST.
Jeff Sessions began his statement by saying he hoped the confirmation hearings would be "the best we've ever had," before launching into a laundry list of terms being used by conservative activists to discredit Sonia Sotomayor: "bias," "prejudice," racial quotas. Sessions touched on every right-wing bugaboo from the court, from the influence of foreign law and the court "created a right for terrorists captured on a foreign battlefield to sue the United States in our own country" to property rights. Sessions fretted that the court would be "corrupted" by Obama's view that "the depth and breath of one's empathy" is an important quality for a judge.
Most startling however, was that despite Sessions expressed wish that the hearings be "respectful," he immediately began suggesting that Sotomayor was "prejudiced" and biased, saying that he could not vote for a nominee who would "allow their personal background, gender preferences or sympathies to sway" their rulings, and then began to argue that Sotomayor does exactly that, in defiance of empirical evidence to the contrary. Sessions briefly acknowledged that Sotomayor's record hardly reflects his characterization, but argued that Sotomayor's record was irrelevant because Ruth Bader Ginsburg has become one of the "most activist" nominees in the court history (In fact, the most activist judge on the court in terms of overturning precedent is Antonin Scalia, followed closely by Clarence Thomas, presumably the very model of judges Sessions considers "neutral umpires".)
Remarkably, Sessions, who called the ACLU and the NAACP "communist-inspired" as an Alabama District Attorney in the 1980s, called the Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund (which he had previously referred to as "radical") a "fine organization" before suggesting that Sotomayor's ruling in the Ricci case was due to Sotomayor's work for the PRLDEF. Sessions declared that "Judge Sotomayor's empathy towards one group of firefighters resulted in prejudice towards another".
In other words, Sessions spent his opening statement calling Judge Sotomayor a racist. That's pretty rich coming from a man who once thought white civil rights lawyers were "race traitors."
-- A. Serwer
COMMENTS (4)
Hasn't he seen the criticisms/refutations of all those accusations?
Sometimes I think Sessions doesn't read *any* liberal blogs.
Posted by: V.O.R. | July 13, 2009 1:21 PM
She is a racist and sexist as she has practiced racism by making racist decisions (that has been overturned for the same reason)by what she said. Because she said she was better for the job because of her race and sex. If someone votes against OR FOR someone in part because of there sex or race, they to are racists.
Furthermore affirmative action and the NAACP are racist. Anyone that cannot see this is blind.
Posted by: BV | July 13, 2009 9:27 PM
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Posted by: jessica | July 14, 2009 4:41 AM
To BV:
Why so much hate toward affirmative action and NAACP?
Harvard University's "black" individuals are mostly smart people from Africa. This makes it clear that affirmative action is not having the appropriate effect for African Americans (who are mired in their own problems and many of them seek to scapegoat other).
Besides, the NAACP is just an anachronism. It meant well back then when African Americans were overtly discriminated against. These days, I think they should start to lay down the race card, work hard, and be nice to the "white man." All anyone wants at the end of the day is a competent and polite person. Is that too much to ask?
Posted by: Rocky | July 17, 2009 9:19 PM