Posted on 05/29/2009 4:11:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
WASHINGTON -- Sonia Sotomayor has a classic American story. So does Frank Ricci.
Ricci is a New Haven firefighter stationed seven blocks from where Sotomayor went to law school (Yale). Raised in blue-collar Wallingford, Conn., Ricci struggled as a C and D student in public schools ill-prepared to address his serious learning disabilities. Nonetheless he persevered, becoming a junior firefighter and Connecticut's youngest certified EMT.
After studying fire science at a community college, he became a New Haven "truckie," the guy who puts up ladders and breaks holes in burning buildings. When his department announced exams for promotions, he spent $1,000 on books, quit his second job so he could study eight to 13 hours a day, and, because of his dyslexia, hired someone to read him the material.
He placed sixth on the lieutenant's exam, which qualified him for promotion. Except that the exams were thrown out by the city, and all promotions denied, because no blacks had scored high enough to be promoted.
Ricci (with 19 others) sued.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Why shouldn’t there be representation on the SC for those that have been or are still in jail?
That would be representative of the current opinion ... one must have been there in order to Adjudicate?
bump
I am hoping the SCOTUS over turns her decision prior to her hearings. If this happens, it could be the ammo needed to show a pattern that she has no idea what she’s doing on the bench.
Some of her comments, her membership in La Raza, and her ruling in the Ricci case all make her unacceptable to me. We’ll see if the Republicans have any integrity or principles...
It’s very sad where America is today.
Handle the confirmation in the same way the Dems handled Roberts and Alito.
Better idea: Criticize, then Deny.
Let him have his nominee because he’s the president and elections have consequences??
Sorry Charlie. If I elect to walk into a dark alley and a mugger attacks me in it, I fight back. If I eat tainted food and realize it later, I medicate.
If our democracy, which now comprises more voting fools than voting wise, elevates a smooth-talking looter punk like 0bama to the power to pack the SCOTUS, we should not only fight against his actions, we should fight with all we’ve got.
Gentlemen are for parlors, not trenches. Yeah, we’re somewhere between those two, but do you really want us to get any closer to the trenches? How many such (anti-2A, racist) justices is it going to take to make America a land of battlefields and Balkanization? I say we can’t afford any.
Love ya, Charles, but sometimes you bring a fingerbowl to a food fight.
I agree.
We don’t have the Nays to reject.
But we have to put up one hell of a fight.
This is just another radical leftist who is not qualified to be in the USSC based upon the number of decisions she has had overturned.
I agree with you, unfortunately with the republicans in the minority it doesn’t do any good. But I predicted something like this would happen because there were many republicans who were so stubborn that instead of voting in 2006 and 2008 they rather sat home on their butts. Now we have to pay the consequences.
I think there are enough Republicans who have enough integrity and principles to challenge her. THe REAL question is, can they do it consistently and comprehensively enough, AND be taken seriously enough EVEN TO BE COVERED by the MSM in the confirmation hearings?
We don’t EVER expect the MSM to take our side on issues like this-—the big project of the MSM will be to pass on to the public and craftily edited version of how “both sides” see Sonia Sotomayor. (which, if my Spanish serves me, means “larger swamp”,—or to be charitable, “larger grove”.)
Estrada would also have been much better
Reject Sonya Sotomayor!
America is doin' it all wrong with these SCOTUS nominations. We need a panel of self absorbed TV jurist judges and call in phone numbers for multiple nominees so Americans can vote in their favorite SCOTUS idol.
I know I’m in the minority here, but I think Krauthammer is exactly right, on this one.
Maybe it’s because I’m a pragmatic person, but I’m a believer in picking your battles...whether a parent, a spouse, or a senator.
This lady is a liberal vote, replacing another liberal vote. No net difference. (Of course, if it were Scalia retiring, I’d be singing a different tune!)
I’d rather save our angst and vitriol for something HUGE and game-changing...like this rotten national healthcare they seem hell-bent on foisting upon us! Sotomoyor can’t have much of an effect on US, from day to day. Her “intellect” isn’t going to swing Kennedy to her side, any time soon.
As much as I wish we could do it, we don’t have enough “soldiers” to go balls to the walls over this nominee. And her misunderstanding of the 2nd amendment is just plain stupid.
We have to pick our battles, I’m thinking.
All this affirmative action and diversity is killing the US. What happened to get the best person for the job?
Actually, we need to realize that we're over-matched, we'll lose every battle for the next couple years, and stand up unflinchingly for our own principles and values.
Anything else is conceding the battlefield to the enemy without firing a shot. That's called surrender. That's called cowardice. That's the problem with the pubbies right now.
The end result of the rejection of the “rule of law,” in favor of race politics and the personal agenda of judges in rulings will be that all respect for the judiciary including the Supreme Court will be gone. Then what?
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