Posted on 06/30/2009 4:58:16 AM PDT by Liz
It isn't often that the justices of the US Supreme Court publicly rebuke a prospective colleague.... But that's essentially what the court did as it narrowly ruled in favor of white firefighters who argued they'd been the victims of reverse racial discrimination. .......reversing Sonia Sotomayor and the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals.....Even those justices who didn't support the claim implicitly questioned why Sotomayor, et al., disposed of the case with a brief one-paragraph ruling instead of in a detailed opinion -- which would have opened her reasoning in the controversial case to a more thorough examination. None of this will make for a smooth confirmation process, that's for sure.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Around Christmas of 1973, a fellow sophomore approached Frank Reed, a leader of Princeton University's Chicano Caucus, to hand him a formal complaint she had typed up and to ask him to support it. Sonia Sotomayor was head of the other Latino organization on campus, Acción Puertorriqueña. And after a history of fruitless student talks with Princeton administrators over the lack of Hispanic professors and staff, Sotomayor believed the time had come to lodge a grievance with the federal government over the university's hiring practices. The written complaint, filed that April with what was then the US Dept of Health, Education and Welfare, accused Princeton of an "institutional pattern of discrimination" in hiring "Puerto Rican and Chicano" faculty, as well as in admitting students from those ethnic groups. The strategy, Reed recalled, was "different than anything that had ever been done" by the two student organizations. Neither rowdy nor meek, it reached boldly for outside legal pressure on the university to diversify the campus. (Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
THE CASE AGAINST SOTOMAYOR
ITEM She identifies herself as Puerto Rican first, even though she was born in the USA. Why does an American citizen cop a latino speech inflection (if she doesn't have a hidden agenda)?
ITEM In a College Thesis, Sotomayor Appeared to support Puerto Rican Independence. Did Soto have anything to do with Pres Clinton pardoning the FALN----violent Puerto Rican terrorists who bombed US installations? (Pardoned----so that then-Senate candidate Hillary could harvest the NY latino vote).
ITEM She is a member of the racial-thought police----La Raza. They are demanding "respect and fairness." That's latino for "shut up----close your eyes, ears and mouths........or else we'll get physical."
ITEM She is looking more and more like a mouthpiece for racial minority seeking to exert raw power over the rest of us---to marginalize the majority-----something one finds in failed Third World satraps.
ITEM The fact that she and her crowd do not understand a democracy is based on three co-equal branches of government is grounds for showing her the road.
ITEM Being Hispanic is not a criteria for seating a Supreme Court Justice. More is being made about her race than her actual judicial record.
ITEM She has the same disdain for America and it’s citizenry as evidenced by Obama.
Sotomayor's the "Latino Grievances" nominee......every ruling from the bench will be ironclad to redress every latino grievance since time immemorial. Americans will be paying with our freedoms......for those Frito Bandito commercials.
In fact, even Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's 39-page dissent for the four more liberal justices quietly but unmistakably rejected the Sotomayor-endorsed position that disparate racial results alone justified New Haven's decision to dump the promotional exam without even inquiring into whether it was fair and job-related.
soto looks very angry.
I was going to post that headline. Congratulations you beat me to it. Keep posting the true facts because the MSM won’t. Not even FNC.
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