Memo to the Republican Party — when a senator with the ugly racial history of Jeff Sessions starts discussing the potential threat posed by Judge Sotomayor and others like her to the “heritage” of the Supreme Court, it makes me nervous.

Here’s the quote:

Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, told Fox News that he was “uneasy with” Judge Sotomayor’s approach and expressed concern that if Mr. Obama appointed two or three more justices like her it would shape the court “in a way that would be different from our heritage so far.”