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Posted on 06/29/2009 7:06:51 AM PDT by Abathar
COURT OVERTURNS SOTOMAYOR; SIDES WITH WHITE FIREFIGHTERS
I don’t care if a firehouse is all white, all black, all latino, or mixed in disproportional numbers. I care that they put out fires and rescue people. Obama is fine with discriminating against Whites and Hispanics if it promotes race-based quotas. The GOP better bring this up. However, Sotomayor will note that Hispanic firefighters were also put at a disadvantage.
That would be the same New York Times that ran these two headlines over "news" stories:
"An Advocate for the Right" -- News story on Bush nominee Judge John Roberts, July 28, 2005
"Balanced Jurist at Home in the Middle"- News story on Clinton nominee Ruth Bader Ginsburg, June 27, 1993
The split is the scary part.
How could any sane, rational individual applying a modicum of common sense fail to see the very irrationality of the NewHaven case?
Oh, I forgot, highly educated and intellectual individuals of letters and the law, evidently.
Or let’s just fess up and institute a formal quota system instead of all this pretzelian logic.
This is a huge piece for the Republicans, but will the spineless wonders go against Obama and use it??
In a sane world this would be a 9-0 decision, but I suppose we have to take what we can get. At least until Bam-Bam’s first appointment the court is reasonably intelligent.
Why in the world would a Justice vote against the firefighters.
To do so is so clearly racist. What kind of minds do these people possess?
ROFL you got that right
I also got another questiona bout Obama hiring practice is me or what is he dumba*** job interviewr
I never hear of met dude like him before majority of job interviewers I done business with were nice fair guy maybe I am wrong
Seem to me he just take most unqualified Latina or Latino to become US Supreme court justice
That just theory I have maybe I am wrong
Why did you put a slice of American Cheese on the head of a cat? Hmmmm.............
What’s up? Replies not viewable on this thread....nothing after post 170, yet the link says there are 328 posts.
329 now.... :)
“District Judge Janet Bond Arterton dismissed their suit before it went to trial. She said in her 47-page decision that the city was justified under the law in junking the test, even if it could not explain its flaws. “
here’s another one who needs to be bounced out on her biased, bigoted butt.
bet she gets a choice appointment from `o` to the next step on the bigot-judge career ladder.
“District Judge Janet Bond Arterton dismissed their suit before it went to trial. She said in her 47-page decision that the city was justified under the law in junking the test, even if it could not explain its flaws. “
here’s another one who needs to be bounced out on her biased, bigoted butt.
bet she gets a choice appointment from `o` to the next step on the bigot-judge career ladder.
Thanks for the link. I read over it, with particular attention on the dissenting opinion.
Their argument can be summed up as follows: performance disparity should never fall along racial lines, and if it does, it is clear evidence of a racially discriminatory performance measure. Other fire departments with similar demographic environments have successfully developed objective performance standards which result in equitable performance profiles when measured along racial lines. Whichever tests result in low racial inequality are tests that are non-discriminatory.
In an attempt to illustrate how institutional racism can sneak into the performance analysis, they cite that access to study materials is not uniform across racial lines, because most minority firefighters are first generation firefighters and have no kin network over which study materials and assistance can be provided. They cite that, in conjunction with the reported multi-week backorder for study materials from the publisher, this “legacy advantage” afforded to white second+ generation firefighters is partly responsible for the disparity in racial performance.
On another front, the dissent cites that consultations for test material were provided by the existing command structure, which is mostly white, thus permitting a potential avenue for the injection of racial bias into the test questions. Absent any criticism against a single particular question potentially loaded with racial bias, the dissent instead outlines that a noted professional in firefighter performance analysis believes that the relative weight of test components should have been subject to external consultation; such consultation would have presumably resulting in a higher weighting for oral/physical test components which uniformly show higher relative performance by racial minorities compared to written test questions (and, as is fashionable in some education circles, the validity of written test questions as a performance measure for potential job performance is doubted - when the results are socially inconvenient).
Altogether a predictable dissent. They cannot find an individual who was wronged in any concrete way, but have no trouble identifying discrimination against a group. They cannot find a single element of the performance measure which is potentially racially loaded, but can toss the entire assessment because the results are inconvenient. This is your brain on the left-wing mental retardation endemic across college campuses since the 1960’s.
Race neutral. Is that what Obama was before he decided to be black?
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KENNEDY, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which ROBERTS, C.J., and SCALIA, THOMAS, and ALITO, JJ., joined. SCALIA, J., filed a concurring opinion. ALITO, J., filed a concurring opinion, in which SCALIA and THOMAS, JJ., joined. GINSBURG, J., filed a dissenting opin- ion, in which STEVENS, SOUTER, and BREYER, JJ., joined.
Be interesting to see the concurring and dissenting opinions.
Same here. How much more of a racially biased case can you get!?
glad to see you’re back and jumpin’ right in!
The left will never understand that in the ‘real world,’ where most of us live and work, people earn promotions vs. colleges that admit not so much on scores, but on demographic factors like race and gender.
Sotomayer acknowledges she attended Princeton and Yale Law because of her demographic advantages. Her judgeship appointments are, in all likelihood, the same thing. Obama made perfectly clear that her SCOTUS nomination is nothing else.
We now live in a country where merit counts for almost nothing.
“Waaaaaaaaaaay too many 5-4 decisions. Is our Constitution hanging on by a thread?”
Yes, and that thread is getting thinner by the day.
It wasn’t just white firefighters who sued via the Ricci case. There is one Hispanic who passed the test and got screwed
“If anything happens to Justice Kennedy,there will be an assault on the constitution the likes of which we have never seen.”
Bingo! And, with a seduced MSM, there will no obvious tripwire, just more of the boa constrictor-like action we have had for decades.
Noticed on a lib site the other day a poster referred to use of the identifier “Patriot” as code for radical conservative.
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