Patricia Guadalupe Columnist

There is a song of the big star The Lupe that fits very well this week in the hearings of assertion of federal judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.

“ Yours pure theater is … well tested Falsity … Studied simulacrum … Was your best performance”.

This is what Sotomayor followers are saying about the republicans in the judicial committee of the Senate. Knowing that they do not have the votes to block his assertion – the same republican senator Lindsey Graham commented “unless it should have a mental crisis right here, and I do not believe that it is going to happen, you will be confirmed – the republicans have mounted a real "show" and spectacle to do that Sotomayor stumbles, and they are not achieving it. They have lost big time quantity in asking him if his “personal experience” and race have played a role in his decisions, trying to look to him repeatedly for seven paws to the cat. And with the whole calmness of the world, Sotomayor answers “check the decisions across 17 years that I take of jueza federally”. There is nothing controversial. But they continued and kept on asking on his personal experience simultaneously that they wanted to know if it had some personal opinion about a variety of topics.
In what do we stay? On the one hand they were alleging that his personal experiences and the mere fact of being Latin mean that she would not be an impartial judge, but they wanted to know what was thinking about several topics. In spite of all this, the judge proved to be much reserved and calmed. In fact, one of the republicans said, “we have to give him credit and a few antacids for having lasted so much”. One of the most ironic things of these hearings was the participation like indignant protagonist of the republican senator Jeff Sessions, of Alabama, the republican of higher status in the committee. The insistía that the judge might not be an impartial person given what he says there are his declarations – taken him and many other out of context – that a Latin woman would have better judgment than an Anglo-Saxon man because a Latin person has an experiences variety. From the beginning Sessions it gave to understand that he was going to vote against Sotomayor, and that's why his declarations are not surprising. But what is surprising is little attention that has paid the fact that the same Sessions was pushed back during ‘80s for a federal judge square because the judicial committee was considering it to be incompetent and because he said that the organization in defense of the rights of the African Americans (NAACP for his initials in English) is a “communist organization”. After his frustrated attempt of being a federal judge, it was postulated for the Senate and now there it is in the judgment in the first Latin person who will come to the court of major importance of the country.

Him this spent the inexperienced ones to all: they questioned the outstanding credentials of the first Jew, Louis Brandeis; they questioned the outstanding credentials of the first African American, Thurgood Marshall; and there were even those who questioned the credentials of the first woman, Sandra Day O'Connor, although she was nominated by a republican. Moreover, it was the same republican Ronald Reagan who nominated Sessions for the judicial position that never managed. There are always going to be persons and groups that question the outstanding people who does not look alike to them, thinking that of course they could not have come where they are without any pitfall.
But we know the truth and good that The Lupe said it: "He excuses that he does not believe you. It seems to me that it is a theater. Pure theater”.