Tag: Sonia Sotomayor

Vicious personal attacks leveled by conservatives designed to undermine the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court haven't yet turned the public against the likely first Latina judge appointed to the nation's highest bench.

For years, conservative writer and activist Marcus Epstein has worked with the mainstream of the immigration restrictionist movement. He wrote speeches for former Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., during his presidential bid, and he’s still working as the executive director of Tancredo’s Team America PAC, alongside Bay Buchanan.

Well, that ought to be a real Frost/Nixon television moment.

The National Council of La Raza doesn't think much of former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo's attack on the 40-year-old civil rights organization as "a Latino KKK without the hoods or the nooses." The Littleton Republican made the claim Thursday afternoon in an interview on CNN, arguing his claim that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sottomayor "appears to be racist." "He doesn't know what he's talking about," National Council of La Raza spokesperson Lisa Navarrete told The Colorado Independent. "He's defamed our organization and told falsehoods about our organization without any basis in fact or evidence. That's not who we are or what we do.

Ramping up his campaign to brand Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor a "racist," former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo just appeared on CNN to attack the federal judge's membership in La Raza, calling the group "a Latino KKK without the hoods or the nooses."

With the nomination of Latina Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court there are a myriad of perspectives on what the pick symbolizes for the political future of the Latino community as a whole.

In yet another offensive statement, for which he will no doubt refuse to repudiate, former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo said today that U.S. Supreme Court Justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor is a racist. Crooks and Liars.com supplies the jaw-dropping video of Tancredo's remarks on MSNBC's "The Ed Show":

One of the two Coloradans who will actually have a vote whether Judge Sonia Sotomayor sits on the Supreme Court applauded the nomination Tuesday. U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, a Democrat, heaped praise on Sotomayor in a statement, calling her pick "historic" because she could be the first Hispanic on the court.