As she faces what is already expected to be a host of hostile questions from the Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee in her confirmation hearings, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's first nominee to the Supreme Court, should remember one thing: that it is not she who will be on trial, but the Republican Party.
Rather than allow herself to be put at the center of another racism and sexism-laden political circus around the qualifications of a candidate who brings...
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