Posted on 06/28/2009 9:33:49 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Sunday said the Senate needs more time to review the record of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor after new material surfaced from her time with the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund. “Just a day or so ago, we discovered that there are 300 or so boxes of additional material that has just been discovered from her time working with the Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund,” McConnell said in an interview on “Fox News Sunday.”
“The committee needs to have access to that material and time to work through it so we know all the facts before we vote on a person who is up for a lifetime job,” McConnell said.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to take up the nomination on July 13. Republicans have complained bitterly about the timetable for considering the nomination. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is aiming for a floor vote before the Senate breaks in August.
Sotomayor served on the group’s board of directors from 1980 to 1992. Conservatives opposed to her nomination have seized on a 1981 memo signed by her and two other directors of the group, which is now called LatinoJustice PRLDEF. In it, the directors argued against reinstating the death penalty in New York state, making the case that capital punishment is racist because it is disproportionately imposed on minorities.
Uh-oh, Sonia.
Don’t worry, though. Most Americans want to see you in the USSC. /sarc
However, Sonia can belong to groups that want Puerto Rico to break away from the United States, and Sonia can belong to groups that want the SW United States carved into another country?
They won’t get it. The MO of this administration is that everything is a crisis and must be done now!
Dealth Penalties are “disproportionately applied to minorities” because they are the ones doing the worst crimes, often involving severe violence and or death to the victims.
The excuse of “he just has hot Latin blood” doesn’t fly with American justice.
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