For many Latinos, President Bush’s latest pick for the Supreme Court, Samuel Alito, was no treat. On Halloween the Hispanic Bar Association expressed their
profound disappointment that for the third time in the last six months President George W. Bush has ignored the estimated 41.3 million Americans of Hispanic descent in his choice to fill a Supreme Court vacancy.
Personally I think Bush was ignoring Latinos way before this musical chair game of Supreme Court nominations and honestly am surprised at the surprise at Bush not putting forward a candidate of color or with a vagina but let’s look at what we do have in Sam Alito.
Alito is a conservative with a Roman-Catholic background, so you can add him to your prayer list. He is anti-choice. In 1997 Alito argued
against a racial-discrimination claim made by a black woman. In 2001 Alito joined in on an opinion that set aside Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) orders to clean up ammonia from a fertilizer plant that polluted drinking-water wells.
While we as Latinos do not get to vote directly for the justices of the highest court in this country, some of us do get to vote for the Senators who question and approve the nominations. Sam Alito is not Latino and it looks like he won’t be good for us either.
Via / DiversityInc and U.S. Newswire
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2 Responses to But is he Good for Latinos?
HispanicPundit
November 3rd, 2005 at 10:13 pm
Personally I think Bush was ignoring Latinos way before this musical chair game of Supreme Court nominations and honestly am surprised at the surprise at Bush not putting forward a candidate of color or with a vagina but let’s look at what we do have in Sam Alito.
Actually, as I’ve documented several times on my blog, Bush did try to push a Latino, and a very well qualified one at that. Miguel Estrada, if you remember, was the first appeals court judge ever filibustered in the history of the United States, and he was filibustered by Democrats specifically because he is Latino. In fact, as Alberto Gonzales pointed out at the time, Roberts, the judge nominated for Chief Justice, who was assailed by everybody for being so overly qualified, had about the same qualifications as Estrada, yet he was accepted to be Chief Justice of the United States and Democrats found Latino Estrada so repulsive that they wouldn’t even allow him to be an appeals court judge. Democrats found it easier to vote for a white qualified judge than a Latino qualified judge, as Hollywood demonstrates perfectly, liberals only like us when were cutting their grass…
Maegan la Mala
November 4th, 2005 at 9:19 am
well I don’t label myself a liberal (I’m far beyond that) and I don’t think you and I will agree on much. That said. It would have been interesting had Estrada continued forward. I know one of the big issues with Estrada was his vagueness about where he stood on civil/human rights issues. I will be completely honest, being staunchly anti-conservative I think I’m gonna have a problem with anyone Bush is pushing.