Sonia Sotomayor 0, white people 1

[Onkel Neal]

The Supreme Court has ruled 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.

New Haven was wrong to scrap a promotion exam because no African-Americans and only two Hispanic firefighters were likely to be made lieutenants or captains based on the results, the court said Monday in a 5-4 decision. The city said that it had acted to avoid a lawsuit from minorities.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090629/D994COG82.html

I wonder, would she have to recuse herself on this if she were already in the SC?

[Task Force]

thats screwed up... if it was the other war around that Al Sharpton guy would be haveing a panic attack...

[SteamWake]

Wow Sotamyers batting average is really getting bad. I had heard that something like nearly 80% of her rulings were overturned

Time to send her back to the minors :rotfl:

[Tchocky]

Sonia Sotomayor 0, white people 1

This is a debate on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, not a burning crusade against white people.

Read about it here - http://www.slate.com/id/2219062
And here - http://www.slate.com/id/2218393/
And here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricci_v._DeStefano

[AVGWarhawk]

Good bad or indifferent, Civil Rights Act, I'm sure Obama's speechwriters are busy drafting one up to skirt this issue.

[Buddahaid]

Maybe everyone should wear burqa's and be judged by merit. I'm so tired of the whole us over them mindsets on all fronts. What a childish stupid waste of effort!

Buddahaid

[sunvalleyslim]

makes you wonder if she was nominated on merit or "PC"..........

I guess as a wise latina woman she didn't make a better judgement than five SCOTUS judges. Looks like another party-line vote with Kennedy, as he often does, casting the deciding ballot.

Over her ten years on the circuit court, Sotomayor has heard appeals in more than 3,000 cases, and has written about 380 opinions where she was in the majority. The Supreme Court reviewed five of those, reversing three and affirming two – not high numbers for an appellate judge of that many years.

[Aramike]

Originally Posted by Tchocky

This is a debate on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, not a burning crusade against white people.

Read about it here - http://www.slate.com/id/2219062
And here - http://www.slate.com/id/2218393/
And here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricci_v._DeStefano

Actually, the debate's over. It's a ruling, and it overturned a previous ruling because it WAS discriminatory against white people.

Originally Posted by Tchocky

This is a debate on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, not a burning crusade against white people.

Perhaps Title VII as often interpreted is racist on its merits.

Sotomayor admitted that, while her grades were good, her test scores “were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale.” Sounds like racism to me.

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by sunvalleyslim

makes you wonder if she was nominated on merit or "PC"..........

She was nominated because she follows the current adminstrations agenda. Merit had little to do with it. I refer again to how the vast majoritys of her rulings have been overturned. In spite of the fact as she says "A femail latina judge can judge better than a white male".

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Tchocky

This is a debate on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, not a burning crusade against white people.

Hey hey! Don't you be talking against my people!

If you think for an insatant Title VII and the current SCOTUS nominee isn't racist you fool yourself. Mr. Obama probably attended higher education by the same method. But he is not willing to release his documents.

[Stealhead]

One of the 20 firemen was hispanic so if he was there with his white co-workers that sort of shows that it was not 100% white vs. black. I notice that some reports on the web fail to mention the 1 hispanic firemen with the whites interesting.

I agree that the current system is supposed to make things "equal" though it in many cases is not equal and in this case the correct side did win.
Or did they not rule on the hispanic firemen maybe the supreme court over looked him too poor guy he wasted his time.
This is something I miss about the military you get your rank based on skill and knowelge not age,race or sex that is the way it should be.
Not saying anyone in here is but there folks of every race that are racist i feel that they are wasting their time. Rather than
argue about color and this and that we should see that we are part of the same nation and focus on making a better nation via the democratic methods founded by our fore fathers.

[Kazuaki Shimazaki II]

Originally Posted by Aramike

Actually, the debate's over. It's a ruling, and it overturned a previous ruling because it WAS discriminatory against white people.

But by that ridiculous standard, until the Supreme Court changed the ruling, the debate was "over" and the action WAS NOT discriminatory.

And before we blast that Sotomayor too hard, do remember that she's only guilty of affirming a decision made by an Arterton at the District Court...