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Greenwald On Ricci (The White Firefighter Case)
librarygrape.com - 5/29/2009
Greenwald On Ricci (The White Firefighter Case)
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Greenwald makes an absolutely stellar point about the GOP's pearl-clutching over Sotomayor's Ricci decision: It's hard to imagine anything more contradictory than (a) the right-wing argument that empathy and political opinions have no place in judicial decision-making and (b) the right-wing ...
swampland.blogs.time.com - 5/29/2009
Newt Gingrich Doubles Down On Sotomayor Racism Charge
— swampland.blogs.time.com — Newt Gingrich grabbed cable news chatter all week after Twittering that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor was... a "Latina woman racist." The ensuing controversy has not moderated his opposition. Today, Renewing American Leadership, a 501(c)3 ... (more) Newt Gingrich Doubles Down On Sotomayor Racism Charge

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Tancredo: Sotomayor Is Member Of "Latino KKK"
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 5/29/2009
Tancredo: Sotomayor Is Member Of "Latino KKK"
— tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com — The right-wing fear-mongering against Sonia Sotomayor just keeps getting more and more comical. The latest grievance is... her membership in the National Council of La Raza, a large national organization that bills itself as "the largest national ... (more) Tancredo: Sotomayor Is Member Of "Latino KKK"

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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 5/29/2009
Sotomayor Spark Lights Intra-GOP Conflagration
— tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com — After a week of escalating race and gender rhetoric from the right over the Sotomayor nomination, it's... now looking like some in the Republican Party -- those concerned with actually getting elected -- have become alarmed by the political damage the ... (more) Sotomayor Spark Lights Intra-GOP Conflagration

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The Ricci Case — The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
That's the firefighter case that has ignited the far right on Sotomayor. Hilzoy reads the damn thing: [B]oth the District Court and the Second Circuit seem to me to have been applying the law in accordance with clear precedents. This is what judges are supposed to do. And anyone who thinks ...
The Judicial Temperament of Justice Sotomayer — Say Anything
The Judicial Temperament of Justice Sotomayer may be exemplified by her ruling in Ricci vs. DeStefano, the New Haven firefighter case. One hundred and eighteen people took the tests; 56 passed. Nineteen of the top scorers were eligible for promotion to 15 open lieutenant and captain ...