Political Wisdom: It Could Be Worse for Sotomayor

Sara Murray offers a round up of political analysis from the Web. The Supreme Court today ruled in favor of a group of white firefighters that claimed racial discrimination, “while also giving some fodder to critics of President Barack Obama’s pending nominee for the high court, Judge Sonia Sotomayor ,” Politico’s Josh Gerstein writes. The Supreme Court ruling reverses the decision of a panel of appeals court judges, including Sotomayor. Gerstein writes, “the justices in the majority appeared to join those critics who considered Sotomayor’s panel unduly dismissive of the case. He noted that the appeals court initially rejected the white firefighters’ appeal with ‘a one-paragraph, unpublished summary order’ and later replaced the order with a ‘nearly-identical, one-paragraph per curiam opinion.’ The ruling will be portrayed as a snub to Sotomayor, but the fact that four judges agreed with her position suggests that her assessment of the case was hardly outside the mainstream.” CLICK ... (link)