Rejected Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork doesn’t believe for a second that Sonia Sotomayor is committed to the “fidelity of the law.”
“I don’t take Sotomayor’s protestations that she’s entirely governed by law seriously,” Bork said in an interview with Newsmax. “I think the statements she’s made and the rulings she’s made show that she’s not governed entirely by law.”
He also agreed with the interviewer that her comment about wise Latinas should have immediately disqualified her from the bench.
She has a “preference for some minorities over the majority,” he said.
Bork, who was nominated by Ronald Reagan, also lashed out at the way Democrats conduct confirmation hearings.
“It’s quite true that the Democrats are willing to engage in furious attacks, often without any basis in fact, and Republicans are not,” he said.
“I don’t know if that’s a Republican virtue or Republican timidity. But I think the Republicans are either going to have to persuade the Democrats to quit that approach to confirmations, or take up the same kind of tactics themselves, which would be too bad.”
