Posted on 07/03/2009 11:01:35 PM PDT by pissant
WASHINGTON — A civil rights group advised by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor in the 1980s brought several discrimination lawsuits that sought to scrap the results of job tests because too few Hispanics scored well, according to new documents that are fueling GOP criticism of the judge.
The Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund represented Hispanic sanitation workers in New York City who wanted to stop white employees from getting promotions because, they argued, the qualifying exam unfairly disadvantaged minorities. The case unfolded as Sotomayor chaired the organization's board of directors' litigation committee, although there is no evidence that she had any role in the group's decision to participate in the lawsuits, or in formulating or drafting any of their legal arguments.
Still, the case bears strong similarities to a much-discussed case Sotomayor ruled on last year as a federal appeals court judge, which involved the reverse discrimination claims of white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., who sued after the city threw out its promotion test because too few minorities qualified. A panel she joined ruled against the white firefighters in the case, Ricci v. DeStefano. The Supreme Court reversed the decision last Monday.
The sanitation workers' case and similar ones — including a series of lawsuits against the New York City Police Department that ultimately resulted in the department consulting with a PRLDEF expert in drafting its job tests — are detailed in hundreds of pages of new material the group sent the Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday. The documents were placed on the committee's web site.
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She is not a quality person for the Supreme Court. She is hateful and bigoted.
I agree - not even qualified for the position she holds now.
I used to use the term "reverse discrimination" until I noticed some liberal writers comfortable with the term. So I had to think about why they would have some kind of affinity for it.
Then it occured to me. By using the word "reverse" they can subliminally put in the dig that those white people that are claiming dicrimination are of the same race as the people that used to dicriminate against the people that were the same color as the ones discriminating now. So it all evens out, see.
Anyhow...I don't say reverse discrimination - I say "discrimination" to cut off at the knees the "legacy" defense.
Where's a wise Latina when you need one?
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