WhiteHatBobby
May 29th, 2009, 11:19 pm
In 2001, an angry Jimmy Spencer vented in front of the Fox Sports cameras after the NASCAR Nationwide Series Subway 300 at Talladega, saying he "never forgets" in anger of what happened during the 300-mile event at the Alabama speedplant that he believed cost him the win.
We, as conservatives, should "never forget" about what happened to George Walker Bush's Hispanic nominee for the Court of Appeals, Miguel Estrada, when considering to challenge, filibuster, and potentially reject President Obama's nominee to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor. Mr. Estrada, an attorney originally from Honduras who moved to New York as a teenager before making it through an Ivy League education, was nominated to the DC district of the United States Court of Appeals by President Bush in 2001. With requests by leading Democrats such as Patrick Leahy (who was then, and is now again, the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee), the nominations to the Court of Appeals of judicial nominees such as Mr. Estrada, Priscilla Owen, Charles Pickering, Sr, Janice Rogers Brown (Mrs. Brown is black), and John Roberts (now the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court) were continuously blocked as hearings were refused to Bush nominees. It took sixteen months to conduct hearings, and it was not until the next Congressional term in 2003 when the Judiciary Committee sent the nomination to the Senate, 10-9, on a party-line vote. A filibuster ensued, and Mr. Estrada was never given a vote in the Senate for confirmation, falling after seven unsuccessful cloture attempts.
Orrin Hatch, Utah Republican (and former Natalie Grant songwriter), the Chairman of the Senate Judicial Committee at the time of the 2003 hearings, warned, "One new obstacle that Hispanics face today is the attempt by some Washington political operatives to smear anyone who would be a positive role model for Hispanics and who might be a constitutionalist rather than a liberal judicial activist, or might be conservative or perish the thought, Republican." Charles Schumer, New York Democrat, said that Mr. Estrada was a "Stealth missile with a nose cone". Democrats feared Mr. Estrada would be the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice.
Upon investigation of the rejection of Mr. Estrada via the filibuster and the Democrats' name-calling, the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, of which Miss Sotomaior is a member, was found to have participated in the rejection. Many leftist Hispanic groups opposed Mr. Estrada, and the minority in the Senate at the time found another way to reject judges by forming a junta that kept the same rules of judicial appointees established by Sen. (now Vice President) Biden in 1987 with the Robert Bork rejection that gave us judges that have used judicial activism to virtually move our nation's legislative capital to Brussels, Belgium by declaring laws of foreign lands have jurisdiction over laws of the states and the nation.
The seriousness of Miss Sotomayor's nomination is troubling. The decision she made in the Connecticut firefighter case in supporting throwing out results of a test where only white males passed because of racial standards could be explained in simple terms as if it was taking place in an examination at your typical school.
Suppose there are 30 students in a classroom. 20 are white, 10 are minorities. In this test, 18 students pass the test -- with 10 of them having 100's. All 18 are white. No minorities pass the test. The teacher decides that everyone fails the test, and even tells those who aced the test they would receive a failing grade on the test because no minorities passed the test.
Miss Sotomayor would side with the teacher and give failing grades to everyone, and punish the 10 aces, and the eight others who passed the test. It was based on feelings, not facts. Yet the President believes feelings matter more than facts in judicial nominations.
We do not vote for legislators to the House of Commons in the United Kingdom, and we do note vote for legislators to the European Union Parliament. But judges such as Miss Sotomayor and other like-minded judges believe they, not our legislators, have the right to declaring our laws unconstitutional based on what clears Brussels.
Worse yet, in Reader's Digest over the years, some of her decisions have made the magazine's list of bad judicial decisions over the years.
So if the ruling Democrats try to claim Republicans would be racist in attempting to derail Miss Sotomayor's nomination, we should be like Jimmy Spencer and "never forget" when we "Remember Miguel Estrada" and how Democrats were the racists in derailing his nomination to the United States Court of Appeals eight years ago, along with that of Janice Rogers Brown, a black judge, in California.
We, as conservatives, should "never forget" about what happened to George Walker Bush's Hispanic nominee for the Court of Appeals, Miguel Estrada, when considering to challenge, filibuster, and potentially reject President Obama's nominee to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor. Mr. Estrada, an attorney originally from Honduras who moved to New York as a teenager before making it through an Ivy League education, was nominated to the DC district of the United States Court of Appeals by President Bush in 2001. With requests by leading Democrats such as Patrick Leahy (who was then, and is now again, the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee), the nominations to the Court of Appeals of judicial nominees such as Mr. Estrada, Priscilla Owen, Charles Pickering, Sr, Janice Rogers Brown (Mrs. Brown is black), and John Roberts (now the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court) were continuously blocked as hearings were refused to Bush nominees. It took sixteen months to conduct hearings, and it was not until the next Congressional term in 2003 when the Judiciary Committee sent the nomination to the Senate, 10-9, on a party-line vote. A filibuster ensued, and Mr. Estrada was never given a vote in the Senate for confirmation, falling after seven unsuccessful cloture attempts.
Orrin Hatch, Utah Republican (and former Natalie Grant songwriter), the Chairman of the Senate Judicial Committee at the time of the 2003 hearings, warned, "One new obstacle that Hispanics face today is the attempt by some Washington political operatives to smear anyone who would be a positive role model for Hispanics and who might be a constitutionalist rather than a liberal judicial activist, or might be conservative or perish the thought, Republican." Charles Schumer, New York Democrat, said that Mr. Estrada was a "Stealth missile with a nose cone". Democrats feared Mr. Estrada would be the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice.
Upon investigation of the rejection of Mr. Estrada via the filibuster and the Democrats' name-calling, the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, of which Miss Sotomaior is a member, was found to have participated in the rejection. Many leftist Hispanic groups opposed Mr. Estrada, and the minority in the Senate at the time found another way to reject judges by forming a junta that kept the same rules of judicial appointees established by Sen. (now Vice President) Biden in 1987 with the Robert Bork rejection that gave us judges that have used judicial activism to virtually move our nation's legislative capital to Brussels, Belgium by declaring laws of foreign lands have jurisdiction over laws of the states and the nation.
The seriousness of Miss Sotomayor's nomination is troubling. The decision she made in the Connecticut firefighter case in supporting throwing out results of a test where only white males passed because of racial standards could be explained in simple terms as if it was taking place in an examination at your typical school.
Suppose there are 30 students in a classroom. 20 are white, 10 are minorities. In this test, 18 students pass the test -- with 10 of them having 100's. All 18 are white. No minorities pass the test. The teacher decides that everyone fails the test, and even tells those who aced the test they would receive a failing grade on the test because no minorities passed the test.
Miss Sotomayor would side with the teacher and give failing grades to everyone, and punish the 10 aces, and the eight others who passed the test. It was based on feelings, not facts. Yet the President believes feelings matter more than facts in judicial nominations.
We do not vote for legislators to the House of Commons in the United Kingdom, and we do note vote for legislators to the European Union Parliament. But judges such as Miss Sotomayor and other like-minded judges believe they, not our legislators, have the right to declaring our laws unconstitutional based on what clears Brussels.
Worse yet, in Reader's Digest over the years, some of her decisions have made the magazine's list of bad judicial decisions over the years.
So if the ruling Democrats try to claim Republicans would be racist in attempting to derail Miss Sotomayor's nomination, we should be like Jimmy Spencer and "never forget" when we "Remember Miguel Estrada" and how Democrats were the racists in derailing his nomination to the United States Court of Appeals eight years ago, along with that of Janice Rogers Brown, a black judge, in California.