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The
Lynching of Estrada
by
Shelly Aamodt
02/08/2003
For all their sanctimonious calls for diversity, one might actually think many Senate Democrats desire our nation to be a nation diverse of thought and people; they do not. Simply put, their words don’t match their actions. Enter one Miguel Estrada, a Hispanic who came to America as a teenager from Honduras speaking virtually no English, to the recent May 2001 “unanimous well-qualified” highest possible American Bar Association rated nominee.
Estrada is a Columbia University and Harvard Law School honors graduate with impressive lawyer’s resume, who has argued 15 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, worked as a federal prosecutor, Assistant U.S. Solicitor General, and Supreme Court law clerk. As a nominee to the judgeship on the D.C. Circuit he would be the first Hispanic to serve in that capacity. Why then are Senate Democrats threatening to filibuster his nomination?
In order to disqualify Estrada, a character assassination will be required. Sadly, too many are more than willing to provide expertise in that area. What is Miguel Estrada’s crime? For Democrats any reason will do; which leads one to conclude he is thought to be of the conservative diversity. Easily, one understands Democrat’s distaste for someone thought to be outside their philosophy, harder to understand, how adamantly their work in destroying another’s character.
What is it called when one group of people are excluded at the expense of another? Today, Democrat’s actions and words prove they no longer hold the banner for diversity. We as a nation must become informed to why they act with prejudice against this man and which special interest groups are pushing the discrimination.
As we enter the 21st Century, Americans must require their legislator to no longer provide public lynching, regardless if the nominee falls outside Democrat’s liberal, judicial ideological criterion.
Shelley
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