Posted on 05/26/2009 1:31:47 PM PDT by UnknownVariable
Sotomayor Cases Reviewed by the Supreme Court
• Affirmative Action: Ricci v. DeStefano 530 F.3d 87 (2008) - decision pending Sotomayor was part of a three-judge panel that ruled in February 2008 to uphold a lower court decision supporting the City of New Haven's decision to throw out the results of an exam to determine promotions within the city's fire department. Only one Hispanic and no African-American firefighters qualified for promotion based on the exam; the City subsequently decided not to certify the results and issued no promotions. In June 2008, Sotomayor was part of a 7-6 majority to deny a rehearing of the case by the full court. The Supreme Court agreed to review the case and heard oral arguments in April 2009.
• Wrong on the environment: Riverkeeper, Inc. vs. EPA, 475 F.3d 83 (2007) - reversed 6-3 Sotomayor, writing for a three-judge panel, ruled that the EPA may not engage in a cost-benefit analysis in implementing a rule that the "best technology available" must be used to limit the environmental impact of power plants on nearby aquatic life. The case involved power plants that draw water from lakes and rivers for cooling purposes, killing various fish and aquatic organisms in the process. Sotomayor ruled that the "best technology" regulation did not allow the EPA to weigh the cost of implementing the technology against the overall environmental benefit when issuing its rules. The Supreme Court reversed Sotomayor's ruling in a 6-3 decision, saying that Sotomayor's interpretation of the "best technology" rule was too narrow.
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She is just a lightweight, but, hey, she’s female and hispanic so in leftist eyes she is the perfect candidate.
If she is ProLife I will be happy.
If she thinks sucking brains out of a babies head and or cutting it up or burning it before it is born is not a big deal
then I won’t.
“If she is ProLife I will be happy.”
You honestly don’t think Obama or one of his aides didn’t bluntly ask her about her position on abortion? They did. This is a litmus test for the left (an certainly Obama who is beyond even most of the left on this issue.)
She’s pro-choice. Probably radically so.
I just sent the following email to both of my U.S. Senators and my Congressman.
“Not only is Sony Sotomayor undeserving of confirmation to a seat on the Supreme Court, in anything like the country our founders envisioned, she would immediately have impeachment proceeding brought against her for her actions in Ricci v. DeStefano 530 F.3d 87 (2008).
What she richly deserves is removal from the bench entirely!”
She helped force the U.S. taxpayers to pay for abortions in Mexico.
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