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While increasing diversity on the bench is surely important, Estrada’s unwillingness to articulate his views on contentious political issues, and the administration’s refusal to release his memos, leaves the Senate incapable of weighing his qualifications and unable to deliberate. Even the Congressional Hispanic Caucus announced its opposition to his appointment—explaining that Estrada “fails to convince us that he would contribute under-represented perspectives to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.” The Alliance for Justice, a private non-profit advocacy group...
...because of that intellect, his Central American ethnicity, his relative youth and his compelling life story may one day be an attractive candidate for the Supreme Court. I wonder if Estrada had not been an emigrant from Honduras whether the Democrats—not to mention the Congressional Hispanic Caucus by which many set such store—would even have taken notice, much less thought this nomination was worth the high political costs of a filibuster. I suppose that is a kind of affirmative action. To quote The Washington Post again, “[The Democrats argue] that [Estrada...
...districts could make it easier for liberal Democrats to compete with conservative Republicans by building multi-racial coalitions. Blacks? "need more representation of their liberal views of policy than they need people who look like them" in Congress, Swain contended. Anyone looking at the toothlessness of the Congressional Black Caucus in the Republican-dominated House would find it difficult to disagree...
...Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) announced its opposition to the appointment on Sept...
...Estrada fails to meet the CHC’s evaluation criteria for endorsing judicial nominees,” Caucus Chair Silvestre Reynes said...