Posted on 07/01/2009 5:46:42 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
WASHINGTON - Sonia Sotomayor's controversial decision to oppose white firefighters in a reverse discrimination case overturned by the Supreme Court this week was not the first time the high court nominee was involved in a discrimination case involving public safety employees.
A Puerto Rican legal advocacy organization that Sotomayor used to belong to helped a group of Hispanic police officers in the 1980s challenge the promotion exams for New York police officers, arguing they were discriminatory.
On Tuesday, the organization, Latino Justice PRLDEF, sent the Judiciary Committee more than 350 pages of documents from the 12 years Sotomayor spent on its board, opening what could be an ugly new chapter in the debate over confirming the federal appeals court judge as the first Hispanic justice.
The Title VII discrimination case involving the police officers was settled, leading to twice as many Hispanics being promoted than before. A group of white officers fought the case all the way to the Supreme Court but lost primarily because they didn't intervene in the case sooner.
The case may give ammunition to Republicans, who have criticized Sotomayor's involvement in the group and called it radical.
A GOP Judiciary Committee aide said the material details PRLDEF's opposition to failed conservative high court nominee Robert Bork and the group's ties to the community-activist group Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, among other items.
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Acorn again, the rot reaches deep.
What a vile, bigoted, racist, jerk.
Do I understand this: Latino Justice PRLDEF has ties to ACORN? What have we done? It just keeps getting worse and worse.
There is no way this woman should ever be SCOTUS.
If a white man did the same things she did, he would have been crucified!
Once a bigot always a bigot. Where is the news.
Of course. She’s a hispanic racist & bigot. She can’t be partial. When did SCOTUS operate under the affirmative action plan?
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