While many Republicans have been slow to criticize Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, conservative pundits are confronting her racial views head on. George F. Will asks “Does she think the figure of Justice should lift her blindfold, an emblem of impartiality, and be partial to certain categories of persons?” in his Washington Post column this morning.
“Affirmative action standards are a bad way to pick one of the nine most influential jurists in the U.S., whose vast powers can shape virtually every aspect of our current lives,” writes University of Chicago law professor Richard Epstein, “The president should have done better, and the Senate, Democrats and Republicans alike, should subject this dubious nomination to the intense scrutiny that it deserves.”
