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Criteria for who he would pick, but when he picked sonya sotomayor, republicans and republican commentators accused her of being an affirmative action hire, of being a mediocrity who only secured her spot because of her race and gender. this is a woman who served on district court, extensive trial experience, served as a prosecutor, served on a court of appeals. she was one of the most experienced judges in the entire judiciary, but republicans accused her of being unqualified. i think it is long past time that we take these complaints seriously and just agree any woman of color nominated to a...

Constitutional rights. and yet when she was nominated to a district court in new york republicans complained that she was not qualified. the white men who ran the american bar association said that she didn't have the real qualifications to be a judge. it was nonsense back then. it's nonsense today. it was certainly nonsense when republicans trotted out all these lines against sonia sotomayor in 2009. and i want to be clear about something here. obama never, ever said he would nominate the first latina to the supreme court. he never said he had a specific criteria for who he would pick. but wh...