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Firefighter to Testify Against Sotomayor [Frank Ricci]
CBS ^ | 07/09/09

Posted on 07/09/2009 12:10:39 PM PDT by freespirited

Republicans plan to call a white firefighter whose reverse discrimination claim was rejected by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor to testify against her.

New Haven, Conn. firefighter Frank Ricci brought a lawsuit challenging his city's decision to scrap the results of a promotion test because too few minorities scored highly enough to qualify. He's one of 14 witnesses Republicans will call during Senate hearings on Sotomayor's confirmation that open Monday.

Sotomayor was part of an appellate court panel that rejected Ricci's claim. The Supreme Court reversed the ruling last week.

Democrats' witnesses include New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, former FBI Director Louis Freeh, and former Major League Baseball pitcher David Cone.

The full list of witnesses, as released by the Senate Judiciary Committee, is below:

American Bar Association Witnesses

Kim Askew, Chair of Standing Committee Mary Boies, Primary Reviewer

Democratic Witnesses

Michael Bloomberg, Mayor, City of New York
Chuck Canterbury, National President, Fraternal Order of Police
David Cone, former Major League Baseball pitcher
JoAnne A. Epps, Dean, Temple University Beasley School of Law, on behalf of the National Association of Women Lawyers
Louis Freeh, former Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Michael J. Garcia, former U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York
Wade Henderson, President and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
Patricia Hynes, President, New York City Bar Association
Dustin McDaniel, Attorney General, State of Arkansas
Robert Morgenthau, former District Attorney, New York County, New York
Ramona Romero, National President, Hispanic National Bar Association
Congressman Jose E. Serrano, New York 16th District
Theodore M. Shaw, Professor, Columbia Law School
Kate Stith, Lafayette S. Foster Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez, Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

Republican Witnesses

Linda Chavez, President, Center for Equal Opportunity
Sandy Froman, Esq., Former President, National Rifle Association of America
Dr. Stephen Halbrook, Attorney
Tim Jeffries, Founder, P7 Enterprises
Peter Kirsanow, Commissioner, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
David Kopel, Esq., Independence Institute
John McGinnis, Professor, Northwestern University School of Law
Neomi Rao, Professor, George Mason University School of Law
Frank Ricci, Director of Fire Services, ConnectiCOSH (Connecticut Council on Occupational Safety and Health)
David Rivkin, Esq., Partner, Baker Hostetler
Nick Rosenkranz, Professor, Georgetown University School of Law
Ilya Somin, Professor, George Mason University School of Law
Lieutenant Ben Vargas, New Haven Fire Department
Dr. Charmaine Yoest, Americans United for Life


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: confirmationhearing; frankricci; sotomayor
GOP has some good witnesses. But as long as Sotomayor gets a single GOP vote in the Judiciary Committee, she's going to be confirmed.
1 posted on 07/09/2009 12:10:40 PM PDT by freespirited
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To: freespirited

I applaud the efforts of the GOP on this.


2 posted on 07/09/2009 12:15:45 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: freespirited

well done GOP, that’s at least a butter knife instead of the usual rubber knife.


3 posted on 07/09/2009 12:16:10 PM PDT by WoodstockCat (General Honore: "The storm gets a vote... We're not stuck on stupid.")
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To: freespirited

I guarantee the lefty sites will be a hotbed of racism if they let Ricci testify kind of like Stomfront for white weenies.


4 posted on 07/09/2009 12:17:06 PM PDT by junta (I am the son of Yacub, who for one welcomes my new overlord Obama.)
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To: freespirited

Watch the left’s lapdogs (Olbermann, etc.) accuse this firefighter of being a “racist”, “GOP stooge”, etc.


5 posted on 07/09/2009 12:17:12 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: freespirited

Interesting, lots of politicians on their side, lots of law professors on ours. If this were an expert witness list, I’d say we win.


6 posted on 07/09/2009 12:17:34 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: freespirited

What is David Cone doing on this list? Does the Supreme Court have a softball team?


7 posted on 07/09/2009 12:23:26 PM PDT by In Maryland
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To: KC_Conspirator

why don’t they also bring Vargas, one of the other fire fighters who won in the suit...


8 posted on 07/09/2009 12:29:18 PM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: freespirited
Mary Boies, Primary Reviewer

I wonder if she is related to David Boies (Clinton attorney)?

9 posted on 07/09/2009 12:33:02 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: In Maryland

Maybe Sotomayor had Cone in her Fantasy League?


10 posted on 07/09/2009 12:42:26 PM PDT by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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To: freespirited

Time for the dems to get a CT state official to check into this guy’s taxes and otherwise ruin his life, you know, like they did to “Joe the Plumber.”


11 posted on 07/09/2009 12:51:00 PM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: 17th Miss Regt

Yup. She is his wife.


12 posted on 07/09/2009 12:57:19 PM PDT by freespirited
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To: freespirited

Suppose Sotomayor is rejected. Does anybody think Obama will nominate anyone less dangerous? He would probably nominate somebody equally ideologically leftist but more devious.


13 posted on 07/09/2009 1:15:02 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Obama's multi- trillion dollar agenda would be a "man caused disaster")
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To: freespirited

If the GOP has any PR sense (a really iffy question), they’d have all the firefighters there in the audience, who were discriminated against and in their uniforms.


14 posted on 07/09/2009 1:38:16 PM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (Are they insane, stupid or just evil?)
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To: freespirited

Let’s all picture a black man testifying the exact same words.


15 posted on 07/09/2009 2:10:44 PM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
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To: Tallguy

Sotomayer had a role in ending 1995 MLB strike...

I think David Cone was involved with MLB Players’ Association back then.

I have to concede that I was happy that the baseball season resumed back then...


16 posted on 07/09/2009 11:31:47 PM PDT by L.A.Justice
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To: FlipWilson; freespirited
You were right. It has already started.

Next the tax returns.

17 posted on 07/11/2009 5:28:02 AM PDT by Daffynition ("If any of you die, can I please have your ammo?" ~ Gator113)
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