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Today’s Enchanted Media Moment
Nice Deb —
... and such a good representative for the country,” said Alan Siegel, a corporate branding expert and CEO of the marketing firm Siegel & Gale. “I admire him.”
“They’ve just done so many things so well,” said Susan Hodgkinson, principal of The Personal Brand Co. “You have to tip your hat to them and say, ‘Brilliant.’”
Wowowowow! Just looking at the news, today, you could say he did a “brilliant” job picking his Supreme Court nominee.
His support for the Honduran lefty despot as ...
SCOTUS Overrules Sotomayor in Racial Discrimination Case
Stop The ACLU —
... in evidence—that the tests were flawed because they were not job-related or because other, equally valid and less discriminatory tests were available to the City. Fear of litigation alone cannot justify an employer’s reliance on race to the detriment of individuals who passed the examinations and qualified for promotions. The City’s discarding the test results was impermissible under Title VII, and summary judgment is appropriate for petitioners on their disparate-treatment claim. Ed Morrissey: This creates a big problem for Obama and the Democrats in Congress. They certainly ...
Sotomayor overturned in Ricci v. DeStefano
No Runny Eggs —
... Gabriel has a lot more insight over at the linked Ace of Spades HQ post. Meanwhile, Ed Morrissey wrote that Justice Alito’s concurrence, which addresses “calculated omissions” from the dissent written by Justice Ginsburg, that “…(Judge Sotomayor’s supporters’) big sell — that she was one of the appellate court’s most brilliant minds — just took a body blow on this decision.” ...
6/29: RINO-Hunting
Blogometer —
Liberal bloggers ( McCarter , Greenwald , digby , hilzoy ) are angry that the Obama admin. is reportedly "crafting language for an executive order that would reassert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely." Conservative bloggers ( Malkin , Morrissey , Jacobson , Pilon ) are portraying the SCOTUS's decision in the Ricci case -- which "revers[ed] a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge" -- as a blow to Sotomayor's chances of ...
SCOTUS Rejects Sotomayor’s “Because I Said So” Decision
The Sundries Shack —
SCOTUS decided one of the big cases of the year today, Ricci v DiStefano , and there weren’t any major surprises . You can find a couple pretty good analyzes from Ed Morrissey and a roundup at Instapundit . The meat of the SCOTUS decision is that the city of New Haven was wrong to deny the promotions because it believed it could be sued. Instead, it should have considered whether the suits its decision might have promoted were likely to win . That seems a fair resolution to the matter, insofar as it reduces the chance that a frivolous lawsuit could ...
