Cornyn Distances Himself from Lindsey Graham's Comments Opposing Sotomayor

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Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor took another step closer to becoming the first Latina Supreme Court justice Thursday when the White House formally submitted her responses to written questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Following what he called a “good meeting” with Sotomayor on Thursday, Sen. John Cornyn (Texas), head of the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, said those Judiciary hearings are likely to occur within the first two weeks of next month.

Cornyn, who is a Judiciary member, also sought to distance himself from comments by Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and some other Republicans who have suggested that opposition to Sotomayor should be expected given how President Barack Obama as a Senator treated former President George W. Bush’s Supreme Court nominees.

Cornyn said that while the confirmation process has become increasingly bitter, he does not agree that Republicans should use the process to hit back at Democrats.

But he said he told Sotomayor that he hoped her confirmation would mark a change in how the Senate handles these types of nominations. “It’s my hope that this would start a new trend in judicial nominations,” Cornyn said.

http://www.rollcall.com/news/35535-1.html

Hispanics in Texas don't vote as a solid block--way too diverse for that--but if Cornyn called Sotomayor a racist he could make them vote as a block against them. Whites are less than fifty percent of the population in Texas, African Americans don't vote Republicans, and if Cornyn united the Hispanic vote against him, he'd know how armadillos on a Texas highway feel.

Explanations like this are one of the one useful things here. Would this be the same in the other southwest states?

It would be a good thing for us politically.

People should oppose nominees who seem like they would do a bad job of protecting civil liberties.

Whether previous nominees were treated nicely-or-not should have nothing to do with it.

Get this out.

(Sotomayor's) temperament"?

WTF?

This is the same guy who burrowed his head up John McCain's ass and was glued to his side all during the campaign......John McCain -- MR. HOT HEAD -- who is Lindsey kidding???

So, it's okay for the U.S. to have a President with a short fuse, but not a Supreme Court Justice????


:puke:

whomever gives him more money and pleasure. :puke:

They are having none of the far right's race fest. Not for moral reason, of course, but for political reasons.