Legal Commentary

Cornyn: Dems "Giving Cover To Certain Groups" On Sotomayor Nomination

By Big Tent Democrat

Via TPM, Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) lashed out at Democrats for supporting Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court. AP reports:

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, the head of his party's Senate campaign committee and a Sotomayor opponent, shot back that Reid and other Democrats were trying to exploit the nomination and "giving cover to groups and individuals to nurture racial grievances for political advantage." "I don't think it influences people's votes, but what it does encourage is a very poisonous — indeed a very toxic — tone of destructive politics," Cornyn told The Associated Press. "They ought to be ashamed of themselves."

(Emphasis supplied.) I think he is talking about "giving cover" to people like me, Latinos. Let me inform Senator Cornyn that, speaking for me only, I do not need Harry Reid to "give me cover" to understand that the Republican Party is hostile to me and people like me. Look in the mirror. You are the problem with regard to how Latinos feel about the GOP. Not Harry Reid.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on July 30, 2009 (boomark / email).