Is this the American Way? (The Left Goes After Frank Ricci)

Power Line ^ | 7/132009 | Paul Mirengoff

[mojito]

People for the American Way, the left-wing smear machine, is (In the words of McClatchy press service) quietly targeting Frank Ricci, the Connecticut firefighter whose successful lawsuit for racial discrimination has proven to be so inconvenient for Judge Sotomayor. Specifically, People for the American Way, along with other such drive-by hit artists, is urging reporters to scrutinize Ricci's allegedly "troubled and litigious work history." So far, the lefty blogosphere, at least, has taken up the call.

Ricci is on the list of witnesses Republican Senators will call at Sotomayor's confirmation hearing. But does this make his "litigious work history" an issue that deserves scrutiny? It does so only if that history has some relevance to Judge Sotomayor's fitness to serve on the Supreme Court.

And plainly, it has no such relevance. No matter how many actions Ricci may have filed in the past, the only one that pertains to Sotomayor is the one she decided. That suit, in which a substantial number of other plaintiffs joined, was found to be meritorious.

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Ricci has leveled no personal attack on Sotomayor, and surely will not do so in his testimony. All he did was file a lawsuit that eventually found its way into a courtroom where she happened to be sitting. To be sure, this ended up exposing Sotomayor as too intellectually dishonest to write a real opinion and too ideologically committed to reverse discrimination to reach a decision that a single Supreme Court Justice could agree with. But that's not Ricci's fault. I'm certain that when he filed his suit, he hoped that all judges who heard his case would get it right, or at least treat it seriously.

[Clock King]

Word!

[ActrFshr]

What kills me most about Sotomayor and Ginsburg is that if ANYbody should have difficulty on a written test, the average non-dyslexic “black” man should have much LESS difficulty than the average dyslexic “white” man.

But the white man’s pigmentation inferiority gives them an unfair advantage on written tests?

So who now is racist?

[Biggirl]

Certain types.

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP

[Venturer]

The way I read this he filed 3 lawsuits and won them all.

That should tell you something.

When you win , you were right.

[Celerity]

I’m sorry, can you please remind me again: What is “Reverse-racism” ?

Because I was thinking for a moment that it was a way to legitimize anti-white sentiment if spawned from the mouth of someone who isn’t white. But I _must_ be wrong, because that’s just plain ol’ “racism”.

So this reverse racism must be good ? It must be the end of racism as we know it ! Reverse Racism, by it’s very nature, will balance out “racism” and make the earth correct !

And has Barack pushed back the rising oceans yet ?

:)

[Wuli]

Liberals CANNOT argue the rational and legal merits and demerits

of the case upon which the SCOTUS recently ruled

in Ricci’s favor,

as part of any approach to judging the Sotomayor judicial appointment,

so they have no choice

but to try to demonize the litigant who won the case,