The filibuster of Miguel Estrada for Judge: DEMOCRATS Hate Catholic Hispanics

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[Isthatso]

It seems the Democratic Party has chosen abortion over the Hispanic vote.

[xzins]

Interesting point.

I suspect JFK would smack his little brother upside the head. Ted is a weasel.

JFK was just as partisan in his own way, but I doubt he'd be anti-america like Teddy is.

[Marysecretary]

Yes, but also because he's conservative and pro-life. That'll do it every time.

[votelife]

EVERY ONE, ESP FLORIDA FREEPERS, Sen Bill Nelson's staff this morning said that "he met with Estrada yesterday and is leaning towards supporting him." That means that everyone needs to start calling him now!

Phone: 202-224-5274
Fax: 202-228-2183

http://billnelson.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm

[xzins]

Based on Hispanic historic ties to the Catholic church, Democrats must automatically rule them out and relegate them to 3rd class citizen status.

[BaBaStooey]

Freepers, check out the Live thread on the filibuster (3 days now):

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/843256/posts

Catholic bump and hispanic bump

[xzins]

especially catholics should complain about democratic hatred for Hispanic candidates just because they're observant catholics

[xzins]

Linda Chavez (archive)
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September 26, 2002

Who is Miguel Estrada?

Miguel Estrada has been held hostage for more than 500 days, but you've probably never heard his story. Just who is Miguel Estrada, and what nefarious forces have kept him under wraps for more than a year? Estrada is President Bush's nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the most important federal circuit in the country.

President Bush nominated Estrada on May 9, 2001; but until this week, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) has held Estrada's nomination hostage. Sen. Leahy refused to give Estrada so much as a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee for the past year and a half. Leahy's obstruction has placed the nominee in a kind of professional limbo, denied the president his Constitutionally mandated authority to appoint judges, limited his fellow senators' right to advise and consent on judicial nominees, and deprived the nation of a first-rate jurist.

But Sen. Leahy is not acting alone -- he's simply carrying water for the left-wing groups that oppose Estrada's nomination, such as the National Organization for Women and the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund. So what is it about Estrada that has provoked such hostility? Despite an 18-month-long search through the minutiae of Estrada's life, these groups can't point to any ethical or legal transgressions. And even the liberal American Bar Association gave him the highest judicial fitness rating by unanimous vote. Nonetheless, his critics accuse Estrada of being -- hold your breath -- a conservative. And everyone knows that conservatives, especially those who happen also to be Hispanic or black, are dangerous.

Estrada came to the United States when he was 17 years old. He spoke only rudimentary English, yet within five years he graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia College in New York before earning a law degree, again with high honors, from Harvard. He's worked at the Justice Department in both Democrat and Republican administrations, is a member of one of the most prominent law firms in the country and has won two-thirds of the cases he argued before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Estrada proved he could succeed on his own, without racial or ethnic double standards or the patronage of leftist advocacy groups. That makes him automatically suspect. In the words of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, Estrada "has lived a very different life from that of most Latinos -- a life isolated from their experience and concerns."

Oh really? Let's see, he came here as an immigrant, like about one out of every two adult Hispanics. He worked hard, as do most Hispanics, who have among the highest labor force participation rates of any group. And he succeeded, brilliantly. I have a feeling that it's this part of Estrada's life story that these groups have a problem with. After all, according to liberal victimology, aren't Hispanics typically supposed to be dropouts, needing a never-ending series of government programs in order to eke out even a meager existence? Their racism is the most pernicious kind, wrapped in phony compassion.

Estrada proves the lie to much of the Left's stereotyping of Hispanics, and they can't stand it. Worse, they worry that if Estrada makes it onto the D.C. Circuit, he will likely become the first Hispanic nominated to the Supreme Court. This is a plum slot the Democrats hoped to reserve for one of their own, which explains why Sen. Leahy has behaved so abominably by tying up Estrada's nomination. Leahy has engaged in unprecedented efforts to dig up dirt on Estrada. Since Estrada has only a limited public "paper trail" that opponents might scour, Leahy tried to force the Justice Department to release all of Estrada's internal memoranda, which he wrote for both his Republican and Democrat superiors in the Solicitor General's office. Leahy's impudence earned the rebuke of every living solicitor from both parties, who complained in a letter to the Judiciary Committee.

Miguel Estrada has been held hostage to the liberal interest groups for too long. If ever anyone deserved to sit on the federal bench, Estrada certainly does. He will make a great appeals court judge, serving justice and the American people well, if only the Democrats will give him the chance.


Linda Chavez is President of the Center for Equal Opportunity, a TownHall.com member organization.

[Thorondir]

It's a wierd dilemma. I don't think they hate Hispanic Catholics. But perhaps they take them for granted because both hispanics and Catholics largely vote for Demoncraps. With the notable exception of Cuban refugees, of course. They tend to vote Republican.

How any Catholic can support the Abortion Party is beyond me. By definition, it carries automatic prohibition from receiving the Blessed Sacrament, but they just go ahead and do it anyway.

Pretty sick.

[mabelkitty]

In Ohio, Lake, Lorain, and Cuyahoga counties are huge Hispanic populations, and they are strict Catholics.

Take some of these articles and put them in the local businesses.

[mabelkitty]

Catholics vote abortion the way Nancy Pelosi votes abortion - she said that if a black man raped her daughter, etc.

It's on a thread here somewhere.

[Gophack]

Actually, I would say that Democrats hate Hispanic Catholics who don't publicly oppose the teachings of the Church.

Here in California there is a long list of so-called Catholic Hispanics who embrace abortion, contraception, homosexual rights, etc ... and they are loved and revered by the liberals. But if a Catholic Hispanic actually stands up for the principles of the Church in which they belong, they are told "don't preach your religion" or "separation of church and state".

Democrats are hypocrites.

[Gophack]

I believe there was a poll done last year that showed that Catholics who attend Mass AT LEAST twice a month or more are overwhelmingly pro-life and vote pro-life, while Catholics who attend Mass less than once a month (they're usually CEOs -- Christmas and Easter Only Catholics) are largely pro-abortion and vote that way.

[Wolverine]

Listen to this; send it to your friends

Sylvia, a distraught democrat

[Gophack]

A large percentage of Hispanics are Roman Catholics. They should be up in arms about this.

I agree. Unfortunately, most Hispanics don't hear about this for two reasons: 1) Republicans do not reach out to Hispanics on morally conservative issues (BIG MISTAKE, PEOPLE!) and 2) the secular media doesn't discuss these things fairly.

I was reading a Catholic newsletter from L.A. (I'm in Northern CA) where pro-life protesters were demonstrating at a Davis event. One volunteer -- a pro-life Hispanic Democrat -- approached them and asked why they were protesting, and they shared with her Davis' pro-abort record. She said, "I had no idea he was pro-abortion." She left the table where she was volunteering and joined the protesters.

I think this is more common than any of us can imagine. Many people, especially sheltered Catholics, believe that anyone who publicly calls himself Catholic espouses the beliefs of the Catholic Church -- we give him the benefit of the doubt. We need to stop doing that, and start asking the tough questions.

[atomopawn]

Is this the same Estrada from the case that extended RICO to apply to pro-life activists outside of clinics?

http://www.usdoj.gov/olp/estrada.htm

[Capitalism2003]

They don't hate catholics...They don't hate Miguel Estrada because he is a hispanic...They hate him because he is a hispanic CONSERVATIVE. They HATE ALL MINORITIES who dare stray from the liberal plantation. It is a deep hatred and the fear they have of losing power over the minority groups. All conservative minorities must be CRUSHED. It's standard DNC policy.

[xzins]

I think if the Hispanic Catholics could only get a sense of how degenerate the remainder of the Democratic Party is, that they would weep in tears at the decadence and death they have supported.

[dark_lord]

I dunno... they seem to love paying taxes...

Nope. They love having you paying taxes. Most "activists" don't earn enough money to pay taxes. And if they are single parents they get earned child credits. Thus the government pays them after they file their 1040. Money from your wallet to their pockets. That's why they like taxes.

[harpo11]

These same democrats would oppose John F. Kennedy's nomination to the presidency. This sad sack political party has sunk into pond scum.