Reader Response
November, 2004
Who will Join the Court?Edward Lazarus's "Courting Disaster" (August) mentions the pressure on President Bush to appoint a Latino to the Supreme Court. Like the appointment of Thurgood Marshall in 1967, the addition of a Latino would be historic. But Lazarus didn't discuss what a Latino would bring to the Court. No justice has consistently made the case for Latinos, as Justice Marshall did for African Americans, on issues such as the history of discrimination against Mexican Americans...
