Sotomayor’s Mistake. The diversity mess. [Victor Davis Hanson]

Sonia/Soto: "We (Latinos) have only 10 out of 147 active circuit court judges and 30 out of 587 active district court judges. Those numbers are grossly below our proportion of the population.”

There is nothing written in the US Constitution that requires the seating of judges or a Supreme Court Justice based on quotas or ethnicity. That's just another corrupt aberration of these hyphenates.

She is not an objective jurist. She is an "advocate" obsessed with redressing latino grievances from the bench. She is bent on destroying our freedoms as payback for all those Frito Bandito commercials.

We need to see her emails and phone records to determine who controls her and whether she has contacts with foreign governments.

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She is completely absent the necessary judicial temperament---the valuable "judicial gravitas." CBS Evening News pointed that up ...as well as her Achilles heel.......her obsession with latinoism.

REFERENCE CBS Evening News caught her offguard---visiting with Senators. She had clearly been coached------ CBS (bless 'em) explicitly pointed out that she and the Senators were mouthing the same language. Someone off-camera asked her if she was racist. Her visage quickly changed from a smiling senorita to that of a raging bull. CBS kept the camera trained on her. She was furious that gringos were not "respecting" her. Her lips actually moved but no sound came out.... Katie Couric's voice-over clearly noted that, as well.

FR Buckeye McFrog posted: We are witnessing a very sharp piece of triangulation from Rush Limbaugh on this. By indicating that he could support her IF she turns out to be pro-life, he has raised the hackles of the far-left nutroots, who will likely turn on her with a vengeance. (to a degree it is already happening due to her being the court’s 6th. Catholic). Either they will take the nomination down, OR she will be forced to make a very forceful and unambiguous pro-choice statement, which will energize Conservatives. Brilliant job by El Rushbo to flush her out of the tall grass.

SCENARIOS If Sonia/Soto says she is pro-life because of her religious faith......Catholic haters PP and Naral will have a cow. If she comes out pro/abortion, Rush can point out her hypocrisy (like fellow Catholics Pelosi, Kerry, Kennedy who PROMOTE abortion).

Rush can then point out that Roe v. Wade can finally be overturned (based on the 14th amendment)......

Time to force people to face the facts.... Obama uses the term "Previable Fetuses" for aborted babies born alive.....lets show 'em "Previable Fetuses" w/ actual pictures and gruesome details of exactly what happens from p/b abortion.

There is no Hispanic race or culture, contrary to popular belief. Mexican culture is a hybrid of American Indian and European influences. On a related topic, hasn't south Texas always been predominantly Hispanic, even in the post-annexation period? I understand the big difference is that the Mexican migration shifted to east Texas following WWII

Beg to differ. The Hispanic race is a verifiable race and a distinct culture. The Mexicans are a cross-section of indian tribes that have been closely linked with the Inuit of Alaska as well as the Spanish who, for a time conquered Mexico before disease forced them to abandon the country. This is why there are the primarily brown Mexicans who were descended from the indian tribes, and the white Mexicans who were descended from the Spanish Conquistadors.

South Texas was was not predominantly Hispanic, it was predominantly settled by whites from Germany, France and the Netherlands who migrated here via Pennsylvania and the Ohio valley. South Texas changed hands a number of times depending on which country thought they could control things the best.

The French arrived and are largely responsible for the missions that dominate South Texas but they eventually were overaken by the Spanish. The Spanish held on for as long as they could before ceding the territory to the Mexicans. While the Mexicans ostensibly controlled South Texas, they gave direct control of the territory to empresarios such as Stephen F. Austin, who was responsible for deciding which Americans or immigrants would be allowed to settle the land. This allowed a number of Germans to immigrate into South Texas and develop communities such as New Braunfels, Boerne and Fredricksburg.

After Texas defeated Santa Ana and gained its independence from Mexico, a number of original Mexicans remained in Texas to become what were then called "Texicans" (both Mexicans and Europeans were referred to as Texicans). After Texas was accepted into the Union in the 1840s, the Mexicans continued to immigate into Texas and joined the general migration of people from all walks of life migrating across the US.

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