Posted on 06/30/2009 3:55:42 PM PDT by FromLori
Although New Haven's firefighters deservedly won in the Supreme Court, it is deeply depressing that they won narrowly -- 5 to 4. The egregious behavior by that city's government, in a context of racial rabble-rousing, did not seem legally suspect to even one of the court's four liberals, whose harmony seemed to reflect result-oriented rather than law-driven reasoning.
THIS STORY On Race, The Slog Goes On For Sotomayor, a Fine Line in New Haven The 'Radical' Who Isn't The undisputed facts are that in 2003, the city gave promotion exams to 118 firefighters, 27 of them black. The tests were prepared by a firm specializing in employment exams and were validated, as federal law requires, by independent experts. When none of the African Americans did well enough to qualify for the available promotions, a black minister allied with the seven-term mayor warned of a dire "political ramification" if the city promoted from the list of persons (including one Hispanic) that the exams identified as qualified. The city decided that no one would be promoted, calling this a race-neutral outcome because no group was disadvantaged more than any other.
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And just think, if that case (clear cut as it is) were to be tried in the Supreme Court a few months from now, it would lose 5-4.
We have reached the point in our country where truth and facts no longer matter.
...not so since Sotomayor will replace the always liberal Souter, one of Bush 1's biggest mistakes.
sheesh, you’re right!
....what was I thinking...?
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