Thread: Leftist Group Sends Sotomayor Docs to Senate

Leftist Group Sends Sotomayor Docs to Senate

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 11:40 PM

WASHINGTON -- Senate aides say a Puerto Rican legal advocacy group has sent a trove of documents on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's past to the panel considering her nomination.

Judiciary Committee aides say LatinoJustice PRLDEF sent the committee hundreds of pages of new material from Sotomayor's 12 years on the group's board. The documents were not immediately available. The aides spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to discuss them publicly.

Republicans and conservative groups have criticized Sotomayor's involvement with the organization and called it radical.

A GOP Judiciary aide said the documents detail the organization's opposition to failed high court nominee Robert Bork and its ties to the community-activist group ACORN.

WASHINGTON (AP) _ A Puerto Rican civil rights leader said Tuesday he was ready to start sending a trove of documents from Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's past to the Senate panel considering her nomination.

Cesar Perales, the head of the legal advocacy group LatinoJustice PRLDEF said he'd send the Judiciary Committee minutes of meetings Sotomayor participated in as a board member of the group from 1980 until 1992, as well as pleadings from cases it handled while Sotomayor headed the board's litigation committee.

Republicans and conservative interest groups have criticized Sotomayor's involvement with the organization _ formerly known as the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund _ and called it radical. Among the causes it took up while Sotomayor served on the board were bilingual education, support for abortion rights and opposition to the death penalty, which it equated with racism.

Democrats defend her participation in what they call a mainstream civil rights organization.

It's unclear what effect, if any, the disclosures might have on Sotomayor's nomination, since she had no direct involvement with the group's legal activities. The litigation panel she sat on was an outside group that didn't participate in cases but set broad policy and guidelines.

"She was on the board of directors, she was not a member of the legal staff, so she was not directly involved in the legal arguments that we presented," Perales told The Associated Press in an interview. "Her role was to help us raise funds, set policy, hire the person who would run the organization. ... We don't expect to uncover anything particularly interesting."

Still, Perales and his staff have been combing through 300 cartons of documents for any bit of paper that might be pertinent to Sotomayor's confirmation process. That includes any letter, report or memo written by any committee she served on during her dozen years on the board.

Republicans and Democrats teamed to request the documents, and GOP senators have suggested the delay in uncovering them is grounds for delaying hearings on the nomination, now set to begin on July 13.

Perales said the Judiciary panel should have all the material by the end of the week.

"They'll have a lot to read," he said of senators. "We hope to produce them all by Friday _ even if we have to pull all-nighters."

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"They'll have a lot to read," he said of senators. "We hope to produce them all by Friday _ even if we have to pull all-nighters."




I wonder how much damning evidence against her will be ommitted or scrubbed?

This racist and sexist woman on the Supreme Court would be outrageous and sickening JUST from what I have heard her say SO FAR. NO WAY can she be let on the U S S C...

I wonder how much damning evidence against her will be ommitted or scrubbed?

YOU HAVE THAT RIGHT!!!!! Scrubbed Clean!

"It's unclear what effect, if any, the disclosures might have on Sotomayor's nomination"

Well they wouldn't have sent any bad stuff!!!

Originally Posted by Tbow009

This racist and sexist woman on the Supreme Court would be outrageous and sickening JUST from what I have heard her say SO FAR. NO WAY can she be let on the U S S C...

You forgot "supremist". She thinks all Hispanics are above others.

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Democrats defend her participation in what they call a mainstream civil rights organization.

Here I always thought to be 'Mainstream' meant 'All Inclusive'.
Silly Me.

Did anyone else notice how sickly the woman looks?
She can barely walk and just looks ill to me.
Diabetes knocks 15 years off your life.
Stress effects diabetes................