The Supreme Court Rules in the New Haven Firefighters Case
washingtonpost.com 6/30/2009 — Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ...

News from The Associated Press
hosted.ap.org 7/7/2009 — WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate's top Republican is lashing out at Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor for ruling against white firefighters who alleged reverse discrimination. Sen. Mitch McConnell says Sotomayor's decision as a federal appeals court ...

Ricci ruling
washingtonmonthly.com 6/29/2009 — RICCI RULING.... The Supreme Court this morning did pretty much what everyone expected it to do, ruling that New Haven, Conn., was wrong to deny promotions to white firefighters in the Ricci case. New Haven was wrong to scrap a...

White Firefighters Win, Sotomayor Loses
outsidethebeltway.com 6/29/2009 — By a slim 5-4 margin, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the white New Haven firefighters whose promotions were denied because not enough non-whites passed the promotion exam. Among those ruling the other way on the lower court was a certain wise ...

Racism rejected: SCOTUS reverses Sotomayor in firefighters case
michellemalkin.com 6/29/2009 — President Obama applauds the decision as a victory for equality under the law. [...] Read the rest »

Ruling on Firefighters Unlikely to Hurt Sotomayor's Chances, Experts Say
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Sotomayor
nytimes.com 5/26/2009 — Judge Sotomayor's most high-profile case, Ricci v. DeStefano, concerns white firefighters in New Haven who were denied promotions after an examination yielded no black firefighters eligible for advancement. Joining an unsigned opinion of a three-judge ...

Court rules for white firefighters over promotions (AP)
news.yahoo.com 6/29/2009 — AP - The Supreme Court has ruled that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge.

A Sotomayor Ruling Gets Scrutiny
online.wsj.com 5/30/2009 — Associated Press Attorney Karen Lee Torre, front left, in January at the federal courthouse in New Haven, Conn., with Frank Ricci, front right, lead plaintiff in the city firefighters' reverse-discrimination case.

Media uncritically repeat claim that New Haven firefighters case shows Sotomayor is an activist
mediamatters.org 5/28/2009 — In the wake of Sonia Sotomayor's nomination as a Supreme Court justice, media have echoed conservatives' claim that her position in the New Haven firefighters case, Ricci v. DeStefano, shows that she is an "activist" judge. For example, Keith ...

Quotes of the Day From the Sotomayor Hearing — WSJ.com: Washington Wire 7/13/2009
Judge Sonia Sotomayor ’s confirmation hearing produced some memorable moments and quotes as members of the Senate Judiciary Committee gave their opening statements on her nomination to be a Supreme Court justice. Chairman Patrick Leahy (D., ...

Specter not acting like the junior Democrat he is (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 7/14/2009
AP - Democrat Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania sure didn't sound like a junior senator, even though he spoke next to last at Judge Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court confirmation hearing.

Sotomayor on Roe, 'wise Latina' — First Read 7/14/2009
From NBC's Kelly O'Donnell and Mark MurrayAnswering a question from Democratic Sen. Herb Kohl, Sonia Sotomayor said "there is a right to privacy," and called Roe v. Wade "settled law." (Then again, conservative Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts ...

Hatch, Schumer among busiest senators — First Read 7/14/2009
From NBC's Ken Strickland Orrin Hatch is probably the busiest Republican in the Congress. Besides being a senior member of the Judiciary Committee questioning Sonia Sotomayor , he's also a key player in the health-care reform legislation ...

Sen. Nelson Calls for Python Hunt in the Everglades — WSJ.com: Washington Wire 7/14/2009
Louise Radnofsky reports on reptiles. Snakes alive! Sen. Bill Nelson (D., Fla.) is calling for a “massive python kill” in the Everglades this winter, using Park Service agents, their deputies, or yes, possibly… volunteers.  ...