WASHINGTON — The country’s first Hispanic attorney general said today that the woman who would be its first Hispanic Supreme Court justice still has some convincing to do if she wishes to get Republican support.
“We’re all affected by our experiences. … A good judge, I believe, comes to the bench very sensitive to those biases, and when they analyze a case they try to set those biases aside,” Alberto Gonzales said in a nationally broadcast television interview.
Gonzales, who resigned under pressure during the second term of George W. Bush’s presidency, said he thinks that Sonia Sotomayor’s answers to GOP questions starting today “will be quite revealing.”
Gonzales said that Sotomayor’s promise of “fidelity to the law” won’t be sufficient to set aside Republican concerns that she would be a liberal activist on the high court.
Gonzales resigned amid a controversy over the firings of federal prosecutors.
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