Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell thinks it’s a “bad idea” to use Senate rules to block judges, but it’s a tool that “may or may not be employed at some point.” Other top GOP senators have said they don’t anticipate a filibuster.

What we know so far about Sonia Sotomayor:

• She expressed activist beliefs about courts ‘making policy’
• She made a racist claim that Latina females would make better judges than white males
• She is listed as a member of the National Council of La Raza, a radical, and racist, Hispanic separatist group
• She admires and quoted a prominent socialist in her Princeton yearbook

Any one factor alone should be grounds for a filibuster, but when you consider everything together, it’s overwhelming proof that she is unfit for the Supreme Court.

Democrats have enough votes to confirm Sotomayor but are one short of the 60 it would take to overcome a Republican filibuster. Hopefully the Republicans will do to Sotomayor what the Democrats did to Bork. But unlike judge Bork, who was respectable and infinitely more qualified, Sotomayor actually deserves to be blocked from the High Court.