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Daily Kos: Abbreviated Pundit Round-Up
TalkLeft: Wendy Long Now Writing Stuart Taylor's Columns
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Obama, Sotomayor and Affirmative Action
How Appealing: "Supreme Court Finds Bias Against White Firefighters"
City Journal Eye on the News and Books and Culture: Ricci and the Skills Gap
Abbreviated Pundit Round-Up
Daily Kos —
Your one stop pundit shop. Bob Herbert's column cannot be abbreviated - read it all. Linda Greenhouse points out the obvious, whatever Fox & Company's spin on it is: Like that decision or hate it, cheer Monday’s ruling or deplore it, one thing that is clear from reading the Supreme Court’s 89 pages of opinions in the case is that Judge Sotomayor and her colleagues played by the old rules, and the court changed them. Although “Sotomayor Reversed” was a frequent headline on ...
Wendy Long Now Writing Stuart Taylor's Columns
TalkLeft —
... The irony is rich in all of this. Yet again, we find extreme right wing judicial conservatives (this phrase now clearly includes Stuart Taylor) cheering on judicial activism and complaining vociferously about restrained actions by the courts. Linda Greenhouse writes: ...
Obama, Sotomayor and Affirmative Action
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right —
... This question, of course, does not get into the details of the statutory and constitutional issues being tested in Ricci, much less the role of Sotomayor's Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which was not, unlike the Supreme Court, in a position to make new interpretations of law. This is a critical point already being raised by Sotomayor's supporters, most notably Linda Greenhouse in today's New York Times. Even Justice Kennedy's majority opinion in Ricci ...
"Supreme Court Finds Bias Against White Firefighters"
How Appealing —
"Supreme Court Finds Bias Against White Firefighters": Adam Liptak has this article today in The New York Times. The newspaper also contains an article headlined "Supreme Court Ruling Offers Little Guidance on Hiring." And Linda Greenhouse has an op-ed entitled "The Court Changes the Game."
Today in The Washington Post, Robert Barnes reports that "Justices Rule for White Firemen In Bias Lawsuit; Sotomayor's Decision Is Overturned." The newspaper also contains an article headlined "No Peril Seen for Sotomayor"; an editorial ...
Ricci and the Skills Gap
City Journal Eye on the News and Books and Culture —
... could take a race-conscious action that discriminates against one groupin this case, the successful candidates for fire department promotiononly if it finds a strong basis in evidence to believe that it would face liability from another group if it failed to take that action. But the Court avoided the more basic question raised by the case: Why was the exam being discussed in terms of race and discrimination at all? The New York Timess Supreme Court reporter, Linda Greenhouse, wrote in an op-ed that the exam appeared to favor white test-takers. It did nothing of the ...
Sessions Says Outcome Of Sotomayor Hearing Not "A Foregone Conclusion"
Daily Kos —
... (R-Ala.), the ranking Republican on the committee, told reporters Friday. "Judge Sotomayor has made some troubling statements. ... She has ruled in some cases that are troubling and need to be examined." Sessions then gives the standard GOP laundry list: She's a racist (a.k.a. "wise Latina woman" remark"), she'll take away our guns (a.k.a a ruling that top conservative judges agreed with), she hates white people (a.k.a. following precedent in the Ricci case), and, she's associated ...
