Leahy To GOP: "Stop The Racial Politics" On Sotomayor

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Leahy To GOP: "Stop The Racial Politics" On Sotomayor


The two top officials on the Senate Judiciary Committee left niceties at the door when they held a joint appearance on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday.

Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) accused the Republican Party of playing "racial politics" with the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Sonia Sotomayor, even declaring that the leaders of the GOP had called her a "bigot" and the "head of the KKK."

"I have no idea how many (Republican votes) she'll get in committee or on the floor," said Leahy. "But she will have Republican votes... She deserves it. Now, I understand (Sen.) Mitch McConnell and I've worked with Sen. McConnell on different things. But like the other leaders of the Republican Party, he came out very, very early against her and he doesn't want to change his mind. You had one leader of the Republican Party call her the equivalent of the head of the Ku Klux Klan. Another leader of the Republican Party called her a bigot. To Sen. McConnell's credit, he has not used those things, but the leadership of the Republican Party came out against her long before we ever had the hearing, long before they had a chance to look at her record. I think that's unfair."

"I hope we don't go back to the day when we used to put African Americans up for confirmation and say yes, but you belong to the NAACP so we're really suspicious of you," Leahy added later, refering to Republican concerns about Sotomayor's involvement with the Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund. "Come on, stop the racial politics," he said. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/19/leahy-to-gop-stop-the-rac_n_239905.html

[SPedigrees]

1. I'm so proud of our Vermont Senators and Congressman. Leahy certainly tells it like it is.

A bigot is a bigot is a republican.

[emulatorloo]

2. EXCELLENT! - recommending EOM

[rocktivity]

3. Sure, stop the poltics NOW

that the hearings are over and the damage is done.

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rocktivity

[cali]

4. what damage?

really, there's no damage done to her, and there was no way to completely muzzle the repukes. In the end, they'll just further alienate a big segment of the voting public.

[Wednesdays]

5. K&R

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