Well that's a shocker - actually what it says to me is the Democrats want to ensure only liberals period will be passed. There is no way you can whitewash the Republicans on this - no way at all.
You know, goodness, I have just been treated to reams of this - yet no one has denied that President Bush has/is courting the HIspanics and please don't every try to tell me his ethnicity had nothing to do with his nomination. There were little whispers here and there - just a dropped line (back when I had TV) before his election that he would most probably get to nominate one or more Supreme Court Judges and he would most likely be nominating the first Hispanic to the court.
Now you can talk all around it - you can scream, rant, attack me - send me a veritable blizzard of pages of his qualifications - but you can't - you just can't deny that the President is playing racial politics - you just can't. "Everybody does it." A reason - but no excuse.
You may need to alter your interpretation a bit. Columbus attorney Jeffrey Sutton was confirmed yesterday.
Sutton is not a liberal.
True the Democrats hate conservatives but they have a special animus towards Estrada.
Senate confirms Sutton to post, Cinc. Post, 4/30
Sutton had been in limbo because of opposition from Democrats, who accused the Bush administration of trying to pack the courts with conservative ideologues,[snip]Throughout the debate, Sutton's critics portrayed him as a right-wing extremist intent on reducing the federal government's power to protect civil rights.
Are Latinos undeserving of attention?
He certainly chose a smart, hardworking Latino.
The ABA even gave a better rating to Estrada than they did to Sutton.
The ABA gave Sutton a minority of well-qualifieds and a majority of qualifieds.
Estrada got unanimous well-qualifieds.