Attacking Sotomayor: Race to the Bottom

Attacking Sotomayor: Race to the Bottom

Attacking Sotomayor: Race to the Bottom

Right wing commentators, with characteristic disregard for reason or reality, have already begun smearing Judge Sonia Sotomayor.

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As NYU School of Law Professor Kenji Yoshino noted when he declared his
support for
Sonia Sotomayor
in The Nation‘s forum “Following Souter,”
President Obama’s nominee for Supreme Court Justice “is a judge’s
judge” who “would be a great successor to a great justice.” That has
not stopped the conservative pundits–never the
best judges of character or intelligence (eg: Bush, George W.)–from
attacking the eminently qualified Sotomayor. Media Matters has assembled
a collection of the right’s most unhinged race-baiting reactions to her nomination.

Corbin Hiar

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