North Dakota Judicial Confirmation Network Blasts Sotomayor On Ricci Ruling

Proof  •  June 30, 2009

Ouch:


Ricci couldn’t have come at a worse time for Sotomayor. Given the attention paid to past, racially-tinged and wholly objectionable comments made by her a decision wherein she rules that white firefighters should be denied raises simply because non-white firefighters didn’t meet the qualifications for them just gives her words the weight of action too.
What people do is more important than what they say.

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  • http://Array sayanything-5371

    WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge.

    All her decisions have been racially motivated. Sotomayor is unfit to be on SCOTUS. She needs to be rejected.

  • J.L.

    As usual, the Libtards are missing the real point of the Ricci ruling ( which compares nothing to the Alito cases brought up.) We can argue left vs. right how the case was decided today, but the real criticism of Sotomayer is her granting of summary judgment. As Ed Whelan noted, “not a single justice thought that Sotomayor acted correctly in granting summary judgment to the city of New Haven.” So, in that aspect of the case, it was really 9-0.

  • http://www.thedailyslant.com/ Hairy Polemic

    I’ll admit that because she’s appointed this all may be moot, but what’s so bad about critciizing her?

    Nothing. I’m happy to criticize her myself. In fact, her recent eminent domain decision worries me more than anything else.

    And encouraging our elected representatives to vote against her appointment based on that criticism?

    I feel that it would be making yet another issue subject to populist influence and media profiteering. It cheapens our government.

    The judiciary used to function as well as it did pre-1981 because it was not subject to this kind of politicization. You may disagree with some of the rulings, but at least you couldn’t easily predict how a judge would rule before the opinion came. Making it political is precisely why our current court makes all of its decisions along party lines.

  • studakota

    Next we know we’ll be required to buy brown eggs. When I see her being courted by Di Fi and Harry Reid I need no more evidence to know she’s wrong. BTW I’m watching track and field over the weekend. Blacks are, to any objective viewer, superior in those events requiring pure speed. 100, 200, 400, broad jump, hurdles. Also their speed, and jumping ability, in basketball, football gives them, it appears, a definite advantage. Perhaps it’s time to be fair, as the rules of golf are, and give those who are less Physiologically endowed a handicap. Much as Ms Sotomayor has tried to do, as regards their brains. Forget the inevitable racial comments, if this argument isn’t cogent,go to Hell. A very good man, Jimmy the Greek, was fired years ago for stating facts. You can’t fire me so you, head in the sand, racial apologists, go stick it.

  • Brass

    What I find telling is not just this decision, but the fact that 66% of her decisions that reached the SCOTUS were reversed.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

    Hamdan v. Rumsfeld?

    Say, isn’t that the Roberts decision the SCOTUS overturned 5 – 3, after
    Roberts became CJ of the SCOTUS?

    Well nutters, if being overturned is reason enough to disqualify a nominee, is it enough to impeach a sitting justice?

    And what of the 4 (one unanimous) cases the SCOTUS overturned decided by wingnut darling Alito?

    Let’s throw the bums out!
    Tea Bag the SCOTUS!!!

  • http://www.northdecoder.com/ Adam

    I have 2.5 words for you: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld

    Care to guess which D.C. Circuit judge’s opinion was overruled in a 5-3 decision???

    What’s the name again???

    Chief Justice John Glover Roberts!

  • http://www.thedailyslant.com/ Hairy Polemic

    As Ed Whelan noted, “not a single justice thought that Sotomayor acted correctly in granting summary judgment to the city of New Haven.” So, in that aspect of the case, it was really 9-0.

    That’s a very good point. I hadn’t considered that.

    I still feel that we shouldn’t be subjecting this process to so much politicization though. It just continues a very bad trend and is not good for the integrity and independence of the judicial branch.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob
  • Mickey

    Speaking as a white male who has seen enough affirmative action and diversity double standards, this decision gives me hope.

  • http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

    What I find telling is not just this decision, but the fact that 66% of her decisions that reached the SCOTUS were reversed.

    She is a horrible choice by NOBAMA for SCOTUS.

  • Lioncourt

    Did you ever bother to read Sotomoyer’s ruling or do you just like to criticize from ignorance?

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

    What I find telling is not just this decision, but the fact that 66% of her decisions that reached the SCOTUS were reversed.

    Talk about your troubles, 100% of Alito’s decisions were reversed.

  • Wowbagger the infinitely prolo

    A wise latina would now consider removing her name from the list of candidates to fill a supreme court vacancy, lest she suffer future humiliation.

  • http://www.thedailyslant.com/ Hairy Polemic

    I think that ad is pretty dishonest. Her ruling on Ricci does not make her any less “qualified” than the four out of nine judges who dissented in today’s ruling.

    Whether or not you ultimately find the dissent’s view persuasive, it is legal reasoning supported by close to half the court. So getting overruled on this put’s Sotomayer at about the same level of competence as half the court.

    Judges are appointed (if qualified), not elected. Clearly she is qualified, even if you disagree with her politics. These ads are pointless.

  • Headward

    I think that ad is pretty dishonest. Her ruling on Ricci does not make her any less “qualified” than the four out of nine judges who dissented in today’s ruling.

    But include some of her speeches and she’s clearly a racist. I would say the other four judges are borderline racists as well. The democratic party and left will always be the racists.

  • WOOFX

    SCOtUS is a political animal.
    You don’t need a weatherman.
    No worries.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    That’s a rather superficial analysis, Adam. Sotomayor being overturned on this ruling is significant given her racially-tinged comments and questions as to what motivated her in that ruling.

    What it justice in the law? Or her desire to use her rulings as a way to advance her personal views on discrimination issues?

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    I agree with Headward. We have her words. We have her rulings. What other proof do we need that this woman is more worried about the politics of her decisions than the law?

    I mean, what are the qualifications? The average ambulance chaser could probably meet the qualifications if that’s the only standard we’re going to hold up.

    I’ll admit that because she’s appointed this all may be moot, but what’s so bad about critciizing her? And encouraging our elected representatives to vote against her appointment based on that criticism?

  • WOOFX

    The official
    North Dakota Judicial Confirmation Network
    consists of two men, Dorgan and Conrad.

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