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The Moonie Times reports that Judge Sonia Sotomayor advised a Latino group that opposed the nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court in 1987.
A legal advocacy group advised by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor in the 1980s actively opposed conservative Robert H. Bork's nomination to the high court calling him a "threat" to the "civil rights of the Latino community."The Senate went on to reject President Reagan's nominee in 1987.
The revelation is included in 350 pages of documents the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund delivered to the senators late Tuesday evening.
Conservatives seem to think this is a bad thing:
Now called LatinoJustice PRLDEF, the group also has supported legalized abortion and called the death penalty racist in previously released documents."A cursory look at the limited material now in our possession raises several red flags, including a link between PRLDEF and ACORN, as well as information indicating Judge Sotomayor's deeper-than-previously thought involvement in developing the legal positions of the organization," said Stephen Boyd, spokesman for the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Jeff Sessions.
Judge Sotomayor's supporters have said PRLDEF, which litigates on behalf of the Hispanic community, is no more extreme than other mainstream civil rights groups.
Gosh, they're pro-choice and they think the administration of the death penalty is racist. How...extreme. Oh, and they opposed Bork's nomination. Sounds correct on all three to me.
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They have links to ACORN, so obviously they'll be administering the camps once Obama is reelected in 2012 and starts rounding up Real Americans™.
It is getting harder and harder to distinguish conservative Republicans from Wingnuts...
Posted by: dogmeatIB | July 6, 2009 11:51 AM
Strangely, conservatives like to dredge up old crap as if it matters more than new crap.
Posted by: GaryB, FCD | July 6, 2009 12:11 PM
It's been quite astonishing (to me anyway) how much even supposedly serious Republican politicians have turned ACORN into an all-purpose bogeyman. I had never even heard of the organization before the last election, and yet these Republicans expect us to believe that ACORN is the somehow the greatest threat to our democratic process.
It's just bizarre.
Posted by: tacitus | July 6, 2009 12:39 PM
tacitus - my sentiments exactly. I discovered ACORN only by fisking viral conservative emails last electoral season; emails which originally claimed the credit crisis was primarily caused by them.
Posted by: Michael Heath | July 6, 2009 2:05 PM
I ran into the same thing Tacitus & Michael. I had students come to class wanting to talk about how ACORN was going to steal the election, how they caused the credit crisis, how they (and Fannie and Freddie) were responsible for all of the sub prime loans, foreclosures, and collapse of the housing market. A couple of their claims implied that it was all minority (read black) homeowners who defaulted and were foreclosed.
We did an activity with my laptop, projected the census information, homeowner information, racial demographics, statistics regarding the collapse of the home market, etc. The ones who actually could think really started ripping apart reich-wing BS once they realized that even if every single African American homeowner had had a sub-prime mortgage and had defaulted on that mortgage, and had lost their home, they still couldn't have caused the market collapse.
The next week I had a student bring in a news story that showed that Congress had effectively made it impossible for Fannie/Freddie to even be involved in sub-prime lending.
The week after that I had another student bring in a report that showed that the WSJ found that over 60% of the sub-prime mortgages after 2006 were issued to borrowers who could qualify for a standard mortgage. IE that it was greed and manipulation, not poor people who caused the problem.
The week after that? Kid came in quoting Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, don't remember, doesn't really matter, claiming that ACORN was rigging the election, responsible for the sub-prime, had forced companies to lend money to poor people who caused the collapse.
It was as if the last kid hadn't been in class for the previous month... *sigh*
Posted by: dogmeatIB | July 6, 2009 2:35 PM
Best thing I've heard about Sotomayor all week.
Posted by: llewelly | July 6, 2009 4:11 PM
For as much as some righties are casting ACORN as the root of all evil, one would think they'd be a front for SMERSH and that insidious liberal Hans Blofeld.
Posted by: CHV | July 6, 2009 7:55 PM
DogmeatIB,
You actually went to real data sources? With your students right there in the classroom? And actually got (some of) them to analyze it? When you could have just mailed it in with a pre-canned speech about the *((need to examine other sources of data, not just what you hear on the radio, Bueller, Bueller, Bueller...))*
I hope my kids have high school teachers even 1/10th as dedicated to real teaching as you. No shit.
Posted by: James Hanley | July 6, 2009 10:02 PM
You actually went to real data sources? With your students right there in the classroom?
Sure, do it all the time. Online databases, polls, compare previous elections, showed them the results of the German parliamentary elections when we were talking about comparative governments, I even have them do an ideology test.
I hope my kids have high school teachers even 1/10th as dedicated to real teaching as you. No shit.
Thanks, I appreciate it. I tend to drive the kids crazy because I always make them support their position, always argue against their position, no matter what it is, usually answer questions with questions, "never answer anything" and "make them think." ;o)
Posted by: dogmeatIB | July 6, 2009 10:31 PM