Why does Millhiser think Sessions is so villainous?

Sessions has focused his attacks on Sotomayor’s past service on the board of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEF), a leading civil rights organization that Sessions calls “extreme” because it “brought several race discrimination lawsuits for minorities” while Sotomayor sat on its board.

Millhiser wishes accusations of extremism were “absurd,” but the truth is that PRLDEF has taken some pretty extremist views, one example:

In 1989, PRLDEF signed on to a Supreme Court amicus brief in Ohio v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health that argued that an Ohio law that generally required (subject to a judicial-bypass exception) that one of the parents of a minor be notified before the minor underwent abortion was unconstitutional. In its own statement of its interest in the case, PRLDEF again declared that it “opposes any efforts to overturn or in any way restrict the rights recognized in Roe v. Wade.” The two dozen or so other signatories on the brief included an abortion clinic, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, various other feminist groups, and the World Workers Party. The Supreme Court rejected PRLDEF’s position by a 6 to 3 vote, with the majority including Justice O’Connor and even Justice Stevens (who joined nearly all of the majority opinion and who concurred in the judgment).

The Supreme Court is the end of the line. Sotomayor’s connections with an extremist group are fair game. Millhiser and the TP Team would (and should) be all over a conservative nominee’s connection to an extremist group. Millhiser’s credibility is damaged by his pathetic assertions.

To most of the left, the only people who should have their civil rights protected is anyone who doesn’t have white skin. To lefties like Millhiser and the TP Team, white people don’t REALLY have civil rights, those rights were forfeited as reparations for America’s past racist sins. And, if someone who has white skin, like Sessions, investigates allegations of fraudulent voter registration (that happen to take place in a black community), then that person is automatically “crusading against civil rights.” What base thinking.

Instead, think how different the world would be if everyone were actually treated equally under the law, regardless of skin color or ethnicity. Sotomayor disgracefully opposes that world where blacks, whites, Asians, Latinos, etc. are respected as equals in society. Her judicial viewpoint would help ensure future generations are afflicted with victimhood psychology. Her nomination should be thusly opposed.