The sole reason the Senate is going for a filibuster is because Miguel Estrada is Hispanic.Nope. There's a lot more going on here.
It's about pandering to the pro-abortion constituency, pure and simple, a cohort much, much larger than the potential number of Hispanic votes.
The fillibuster also has the collateral benefit of delaying the Bush agenda in a way that seems to be ideological and is purely political.
I agree that this is a huge blunder on the part of the dems, but it's not about race.
It is also intended to intimidate the conservatives into not appointing conservative judges and to intimidate conservative judges not to rule conservatively ..... or else. For them, the Constitution must be changeable by the judiciary because they can't change it the legal way. It must become "a living document". and those who follow it as written are their biggest hurdle to socialism and control.