Cornyn: Racial Attacks on Sotomayor “Terrible”
NRSC head Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) responds to the parade of Republicans who have blatantly called Sonia Sotomayor a racist:
“I think it’s terrible,” Sen. John Cornyn, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, told NPR’s “All Things Considered” Thursday. “This is not the kind of tone any of us want to set when it comes to performing our constitutional responsibilities of advise and consent.”
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“We are all a product of our upbringing and who we are and I think it’s a fact people do have different backgrounds, but I don’t think those background ought to determine what the law is,” Cornyn said to NPR of Sotomayor’s Berkeley comments.
How strange! Cornyn, who represents a state with a large Latino population and is also in charge of electing more Republican Senators, does not think all of these unelected Republicans should call the popular first Latina nominee to the Supreme Court a racist! Of course, the only question that remains now is, when will Cornyn apologize to Rush?
Update: Audio of Cornyn on NPR (now working):
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