Bad News For Obama: Supreme Court Overturns Sotomayor On Ricci Case
Ricci vs. DeStefano is the case from New Haven, Connecticut about the firefighters who sued their municipal employers after they were denied a pay increase because minority fire fighters didn’t pass the same test they passed. As a member of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, Sotomayor affirmed a lower court ruling in favor of the city.
The Supreme Court just overturned that ruling.
I don’t see a link on the web just yet, but certainly those doesn’t portend good things for Sotomayor’s confirmation process.
Update: Here’s an AP report on the ruling.
