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WH: Sotomayor reversal proves what a great judge she is
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... court of “judicial activism,” a buzz term used by conservatives in recent years, in overturning what the White House saw as Sotomayor’s upholding of precedent. … But Gibbs said that the case “denotes that [Sotomayor] is a follower of precedent,” and the arguments over judicial activism “seem to be at the very least upside-down in this case.” Gibbs said the case proves “she doesn’t legislate from the bench.” Not even the Supreme Court’s dissenters to Ricci would go that far. As Stuart Taylor notes in his analysis of the dissent, none of the nine justices defended ...
STUART TAYLOR: “The Supreme Court’s predictable 5-4 vote to reverse the decision by Judge Sonia Sot…
Instapundit —
... STUART TAYLOR: “The Supreme Court’s predictable 5-4 vote to reverse the decision by Judge Sonia Sotomayor and two federal appeals court colleagues against 17 white (and one Hispanic) plaintiffs in the now-famous New Haven, Conn., firefighters decision does not by itself prove that the Sotomayor position was unreasonable. . . . What’s more striking is that the court was unanimous in rejecting the Sotomayor panel’s specific holding. Her holding was that New Haven’s decision to spurn the test results must be upheld based solely on the fact ...
Viking Pundit — ... Tuesday, June 30, 2009 The law trumps empathy - It was yet another 5-4 Supreme Court split in the Ricci case, but buried in the details is the fact that not a single Justice affirmed the reasoning that SC nominee Sonia Sotomayor used to rule against the New Haven firefighters claiming reverse discrimination. Extra - Cato: " ...
What will she do for an encore? Part Two
Power Line —
... yesterday, this makes a difference when it comes to preventing disparate impact theory from opening the door to a quota regime. Stuart Taylor captures the point: ...
Great wingnut headlines
Balloon Juice —
Stuart Taylor ups the ante on the “nine-zip” meme with his headline:
Justices Reject Sotomayor Position 9-0—But Bigger Battles Loom
To give you an idea of how crazy this “nine-zip” stuff is, George Will, of all people, describes the decision as depressingly narrow.
A few questions about Stuart Taylor: (1) Why does the National Journal—a publication I have great respect for in general—publish his crap? (2) Why is his blog called “The Ninth Justice”? ...
Supreme Court 9, Sotomayor 0
Weekly Standard Blog —
... There's been a lot of good blog coverage of the Supreme Court's Ricci/discrimination decision and its effect on the Sotomayor nomination. Perhaps it would be worth pointing to the blog posts of National Journal's Stuart Taylor, who points out that Sotomayor's analysis for the Second Circuit was completely rejected by all nine Supreme Court justices. ...
Wendy Long Now Writing Stuart Taylor's Columns
TalkLeft —
... But that is what one would expect from Wendy Long. And sadly, now that is what one expects from Stuart Taylor, Jr.. But this is the road Taylor has chosen to travel for a long time. For some reason he is treated as a serious legal journalist - with perches at the National Journal and Newsweek. ...
Olivia Offner: Sotomayor overturned 9-0, Ricci overturned 5-4
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
... must be upheld based solely on the fact that highly disproportionate numbers of blacks had done badly on the exam and might file a "disparate-impact" lawsuit -- regardless of whether the exam was valid or the lawsuit could succeed. Taylor points out that even liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who authored the dissent, objected to Sotomayor's opinion that disparate racial results alone justified the city of New Haven for throwing out the results of the exam. Read the full piece here .
With Ricci, Court Redefines Judicial Activism
Firedoglake —
... Stuart Taylor attempts to advance the canard that the Court was unanimous in its decision -- no idea how 5-4 with a concurrence from Alito is "unanimous," but then, I'm not Stuart Taylor trying to do whatever it is that he does when he gets a burr in his shorts (or helping Wendy Long advance her whinery, whatever comes first). It's clearly the "new new" in right wing talking points, because ...
Ricci - the rest of the story [Darleen Click]
protein wisdom —
The grumbling from the racialist Left over Ricci rests on two main points — it was a 5/4 decision and such a “close split” should have no effect on the Sotomayor nomination. What they and the Left-driven MSM ignore is Wise Latina(tm) Sotomayor’s legal reasoning was rejected ...
"It's comforting that liberals now understand that there are worse things than having a divided Supreme Court disagree with your position."
Althouse —
... Quality snark from Power Line, which links to this Stuart Taylor piece explaining why, in fact, the 4 dissenting Justices were not on the same page as Sotomayor: ...
Wednesday afternoon links
Maggie's Farm —
... The law trumps empathy - It was yet another 5-4 Supreme Court split in the Ricci case, but buried in the details is the fact that not a single Justice affirmed the reasoning that SC nominee Sonia Sotomayor used to rule against the New Haven firefighters claiming reverse discrimination. ...
Obama’s Beliefs ... Or Not
Discriminations —
... It seems to me that any reasonable person would have to conclude that it’s pointless to try to determine what Obama thinks by listening to what he says. With him, more than with most politicians, what he says he believes, or has always believed, is absolutely irrelevant. The only thing that matters is what he does. And what he has done, as Stuart Taylor has recently pointed out, is nominate to the Supreme Court a candidate who believes that New Haven’s decision not to promote the highest-scoring test takers ...
More Ricci Fallout...
Discriminations —
... , quoting Stuart Taylor, Sotomayor and other disparate impact mavens believe that New Haven’s refusal to promote the white (and one Hispanic) successful test-takers should have been upheld ...
This Day in History: Ronald Reagan Nominates Wise Arizona Woman To Supreme Court
Pundit Review —
... In school, she was a high achiever and graduated from high school at the age of 16, then she graduated from Stanford Law School third in a class of 102. How things change. Heard anyone calling Sonia Sotomayor “a meticulous legal thinker” lately? Not after being overruled 9-0 by the Supreme’s in the New Haven firefighter case. Compare O’Connor’s resume with what Sotomayor said about her own, “If we had gone through the traditional numbers route of those institutions, it would have been highly questionable if I would have been accepted,” she said on a panel of three female ...
