Re Dana Milbank’s Feb. 20 Other Views column, Does the GOP care about Latino voters?: Judge Adalberto Jose Jordan is an exceptionally qualified and brilliant jurist who enjoys admiration from both sides of the courtroom. His inevitable elevation to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals should be celebrated and not diminished by politics.

His confirmation by the U.S. Senate was one of the quickest in recent history.

But The Miami Herald, unfortunately, gave readers a piece about the skullduggery of presidential politics instead of Jordan’s accomplishments, which transcend the political football that the media emphasize.

Perhaps some day the media shall choose to concentrate on ability, character and hard work as the criteria most worthy of publication.

Politics, after all, will always have center stage.

Additionally, the reference to the so-called “Latino voter” diminishes the accomplishments of Jordan — and so many others like him — who have been rewarded, not for their ethnicity or color but, rather, because of their hard work, discipline, impeccable character and exceptional judicial temperament.

Ana M. Jhones, Coral Gable