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...Senate Democrats kicking up such a fuss over a Hispanic lawyer who wants to be a judge? Their filibuster against Bush's nomination of Miguel Estrada, a Honduran-born Washington attorney, to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals is risky for the party, since the G.O.P. has resorted to phone banks and radio ads to portray opposition to the nomination as anti-Hispanic...
...Hangzhou, China, at the Holley Group, one of the most talked about and admired private companies in China, a team of mobile-phone engineers was very busy on a recent weekday morning--busy reading sports articles and playing solitaire and Ping-Pong. One engineer, at least, worked on a circuit board, prying it out of a plastic handset with a box cutter. "This team is young," said a supervisor. "They don't really know what they're doing...
Crooks’ calm posture and bright confidence were honed in theater and on the scholarship pageant circuit. At one point, she accidentally entered a pageant intended only for girls of Hispanic descent, the Reina de Fiesta pageant. “They let me stay anyway,” she says. “The whole thing was done in Spanish, and my Spanish at the time was terrible. And we all had to dance to mariachi music. It was so awkward...
...legal memos, which he wrote as assistant solicitor general and offer his views on Supreme Court cases. And he has dodged even the most general questions posed by the Senate Judiciary Committee. For example, he would not say with which Supreme Court opinions he disagreed. The D.C. circuit court is widely viewed as second only in importance to the Supreme Court, and it is questionable whether a person who is reluctant to express his views on past cases should be eligible for a lifetime appointment on a bench of such great influence...
...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 whose mission for the last 20 years has been to uphold high standards for judicial nominees, has also expressed concern about the nomination...