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More on the PRLDEF:
Obama Pick for Salvador Post Withdrew Prior Nomination Over Cuba Concerns
12/17/2009, 5:02:53 PM · by Jet Jaguar · 8 replies · 392+ views
FOXNews.com ^ | DECEMBER 17, 2009 | FOXNews.com
President Obama’s recent nominee for ambassador to El Salvador was forced to withdraw her nomination to another diplomatic post a decade ago following concerns about ties to Cuba, raising red flags as her name heads to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee once again for approval. President Obama’s recent nominee for ambassador to El Salvador was forced to withdraw her nomination to another diplomatic post a decade ago following concerns about ties to Cuba, raising red flags as her name heads to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee once again for approval. The White House announced the nomination of Mari Del Carmen...
Sotomayor Advised Critics Of Judge Bork - Group Also Helped ACORN!
9/17/2009, 2:22:36 PM · by MindBender26 · 41 replies · 1,981+ views
WashTimes ^ | Tom LoBianco
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. Judge Sotomayor worked for PRLDEF in various capacities from 1980 until she became a federal judge in 1992, spending most of her time as a board member. The...
Sotomayor’s secret files: What don’t the Democrats want us to see?
7/10/2009, 12:49:57 AM · by JohnRLott · 21 replies · 1,130+ views
Washington Times ^ | Friday, July 10, 2009 | Editorial
We wonder what Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has to hide. Her confirmation hearing starts Monday, but the White House refuses to turn over boxes of documents for review about her past. Republican senators requested board meeting minutes of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, where Ms. Sotomayor served on the board of directors from 1980 to 1992. White House Counsel Greg Craig contends that all documents deemed “responsive” already were sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Contrary to White House dodging, these board meetings may be important in evaluating Ms. Sotomayor’s legal and policy reasoning because the...
(Racist) Group Sotomayor belonged to sued over job tests
7/4/2009, 2:01:35 AM · by pissant · 6 replies · 542+ views
Houston Chronicle ^ | 7/3/09 | Julie Davis
WASHINGTON — A civil rights group advised by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor in the 1980s brought several discrimination lawsuits that sought to scrap the results of job tests because too few Hispanics scored well, according to new documents that are fueling GOP criticism of the judge. The Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund represented Hispanic sanitation workers in New York City who wanted to stop white employees from getting promotions because, they argued, the qualifying exam unfairly disadvantaged minorities. The case unfolded as Sotomayor chaired the organization’s board of directors’ litigation committee, although there is no evidence that...
Group advised by Sotomayor campaigned against Bork (Puerto Rico based LatinoJustice PRLDEF)
7/1/2009, 5:21:42 PM · by NormsRevenge · 7 replies · 799+ views
AP on Yahoo ^ | 7/1/09 | Julie Hirschfeld Davis - ap
WASHINGTON – A Puerto Rican civil rights organization advised by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor campaigned against seating conservative Robert Bork on the high court in the late 1980s, according to new documents that shed light on the group that’s become a key focus of Republicans questioning Sotomayor’s fitness to be a justice. The Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund officially opposed GOP nominee Bork in 1987, “because of the threat he poses to the civil rights of the Latino community,” its president reported in one of several documents from the group that the Senate Judiciary Committee released Wednesday....
GOP strikes again at nominee (Sotomayor member of pro-abortion group)
6/23/2009, 10:37:37 PM · by pissant · 7 replies · 319+ views
Wash Times ^ | 6/23/09 | Tom Lobianco
Republican senators raised new questions Tuesday morning about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s work with a Puerto Rican legal advocacy group, citing its stance on abortion. The Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEF) argued against parental notification for minors seeking abortions, writing in a 1980 legal brief that “just as Dred Scott v. Sanford refused citizenship to Black people, these opinions strip the poor of meaningful citizenship under the fundamental law.” President Obama’s first Supreme Court nominee already faced questions for her role on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a closely watched, reverse-discrimination case involving...
Sotomayor embracing affirmative action, then and now
6/15/2009, 1:46:23 PM · by reaganaut1 · 7 replies · 395+ views
Los Angeles Times ^ | June 15, 2009 | James Oliphant, David G. Savage and Andrew Zajac
When Sonia Sotomayor goes before the Senate next month for her Supreme Court confirmation hearing, the questioning is likely to focus on her work as a civil rights advocate in the 1980s as much as on her nearly two decades on the federal bench. That is because she was a board member of a Puerto Rican advocacy group that sued to overturn New York City’s civil service exams and to win more police and firefighter jobs for Latinos. Sotomayor embraced affirmative action and later described herself as leading an “attack” on testing and promotional exams that favored whites and limited...