In a move that Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, called “absurd,” the White House today refused to release documents relating to Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s involvement with the pro-abortion Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEF).
Judiciary chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) had joined Sessions in requesting the documents, which included minutes from the PRLDEF’s board of directors’ meetings during the 12 years that Sotomayor was a board member there.
The Associated Press reports:
White House Counsel Greg Craig told Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, that board meeting minutes and other papers detailing the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund’s activities while Sotomayor was an outside adviser aren’t relevant to her nomination.
Sessions responded that the White House was wrongly minimizing the level of Sotomayor’s participation in PRLDEF’s leadership:
“Judge Sotomayor served in senior leadership roles at the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund for 12 years,” Sessions said, including chairwoman of the organization’s litigation committee and vice president of the board of directors.
“Given these leadership positions, it is not ‘unusual’ that the committee would want to know more about her role in the organization,” Sessions said.
Indeed, only yesterday, PRLDEF President Cesar Perales told the Associated Press that Sotomayor’s “role” was to “set policy.” Given that the PRLDEF’s “policy” during Sotomayor’s tenure was that abortion was a “fundamental right”, and that it aggressively pushed this policy with six pro-abortion briefs to the Supreme Court, the American people have a right to know just how well Sotomayor fulfilled her role at that radical organization.
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