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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