WASHINGTON -- A top Republican senator says he wants to know whether Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor would let racial bias affect her decisions as a justice.
Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions says he assumes Sotomayor understood and supported the stance of a civil rights group she advised in the 1980s that brought several race discrimination lawsuits for minorities who challenged jobs or promotions given to white employees.
Sessions is the senior Republican on the Judiciary Committee evaluating Sotomayor's nomination. She would be the first Hispanic on the high court.
He told Fox News on Monday that Sotomayor supervised the lawyers who brought the racial bias cases. Now he says she must tell senators whether that work will taint her rulings.
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