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George H. W. BushFormer president George H. W. Bush defended Judge Sonia Sotomayor on CNN today. President Bush, who appointed Sotomayor to the federal district court for the Southern District of New York in 1990, told Politico:

“She was called by somebody a racist once. That’s not right. I mean, that’s not fair … It doesn’t help the process. You’re out there name-calling. So let them decide who they want to vote for and get on with it… .  I don’t know her that well, but I think she’s had a distinguished record on the bench and she should be entitled to fair hearings.”

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