washingtonexaminer.com - 7/1/2009
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The Supreme Court's decision in Ricci v. DeStefano, the case of the New Haven, Conn., firefighters, was a ringing endorsement of the Civil Rights Act of 1964's ban on racial discrimination and a repudiation of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's decision in the Second Circuit Appeals Court. ...
online.wsj.com - 6/30/2009
salon.com - 6/29/2009
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salon.com —
(updated below) In the now famous "white firefighter"
affirmative action case -- Ricci v. DeStefano -- the
Supreme Court today, in a 5-4 ruling (.pdf), reversed the decision of a unanimous Second Circuit Court of Appeals panel (which included Judge ...
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The Supreme Court's Ricci decision - Glenn Greenwald
bloomberg.com - 6/29/2009
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bloomberg.com —
June 29 (Bloomberg) -- A divided U.S. Supreme
Court , reversing a decision by Sonia Sotomayor and
two other judges, said a Connecticut city violated white firefighters’ rights by canceling planned promotions because no blacks qualified. The justices, ...
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Sotomayor Firefighter Ruling Reversed by High Court ...
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MICHAEL BARONE: Firefighter Case Shows Seamy Side of Racial Politics….
Instapundit —
MICHAEL BARONE: Firefighter Case Shows Seamy Side of Racial Politics.
The ugly origins of the Ricci firefighters case
Betsy's Page —
Michael Barone reminds us of how the Ricci case originated. After it turned out that 19 whites and one Hispanic had gotten the highest scores on the qualifying exam, a despicable racemonger went to work to get the results thrown out. Ricci is also something else: a riveting lesson in political sociology, thanks to the concurring opinion by Justice Samuel Alito. It shows how a combination of vote-hungry politicians and local political agitators -- you might call them community organizers -- worked with the approval of elite legal professionals like Judge Sotomayor to employ ...
Sotomayor Slipping
Weekly Standard Blog —
... Michael Barone, writing in the Examiner today, points out that support of racial discrimination against white firefighters in service of preventing discrimination against minorities also requires supporting some really unsavory back-room political machinations: ...
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