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For the second time in a five week period, President Bush decided against nominating a highly qualified Hispanic to fill the seat vacated by Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. In doing so, the President again missed the historic opportunity to be the first President to make the decision to more meaningfully diversify the nation’s highest court by including a Hispanic among its nine members.
“The HNBA is by no means pleased that the President did not name a Hispanic American to fill the seat vacated by Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor,” stated Alan Varela, President of the HNBA. “A cornerstone of our nation is representative democracy and the equitable composition of our courts is an important key to helping our great nation remain on the right track. The HNBA will continue to serve as an unrelenting advocate for appointment of Hispanic jurists to the Supreme Court and throughout the courts of our land in order to protect the cornerstone of representative democracy and continually improve the system of justice. Despite the temporary setback, the HNBA looks forward to performing an open minded, professional and fair review of Ms. Miers’s record. We hope we will find that she demonstrates a commitment to equal opportunity and equal justice under law and that she is responsive to the needs and concerns of the estimated 42 million members of the Hispanic community.”
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