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Judge Sotomayor said in a 2001 speech at the Berkeley Shcool of Law,
“Second, I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”
She put this philosophy to work in the case: Ricci v. DeStefano. New Haven, Conn. firefighters were guilty of being white. They were denied promotions because no black firefighters were eligible for the promotions, based solely on test scores. New Haven had spent a large sum of money to insure the test was not racially biased. One of the white firefighters was hispanic. Judge Sotomayor was part of a 3 judge appeals court panel that rejected the white firefighters lawsuit.
President Obama’s Judicial nominee gets reversed.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_supreme_court_firefighters_lawsuit
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WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court ruled Monday that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge.”
Best line in the above article…
Could someone tell me how this is possible? The American Bar Association just gave Judge Sotomayor it’s top rating.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/07/AR2009070701442.html?hpid=moreheadlines
Everything I’ve read about her shows that she is not a top legal mind. Did President Obama buy the ABA like he’s bought the banks, the car companies, and the media? Perhaps the ABA owns Obama and this is their way of making sure he succeeds.
Alan,
The ABA is only slightly to the right of MoveOn.org. Bush (both I believe) ignored the ABA ratings and recommendations when selecting nominees. I believe that Obama made a comment about using the ABA if elected, and after the election, one of the ABA spokes holes commented that the ABA was “back where it belonged” or words to that affect.
I am not surprised that the ABA would BTMN’s nominee its highest rating.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/11/sotomayor-supporters-aim-new-haven-firefighter/
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“People for the American Way, a liberal advocacy group, and other advocates urged the newspaper to dig into Ricci’s background, specifically an earlier 1995 lawsuit the firefighter filed contending the city of New Haven discriminated against him because he’s dyslexic.”