Breaking: Supreme Court Overrules Sotomayor On Ricci Decision ...More- Sotomayor Overturned 66% of Time »
Posted By pc25 4 months, 4 weeks ago in News
It looks like the "wise latina woman with the richness of her experience" was a bit off on this one.
Supremes overrule Sotomayor on Ricci decision.
Breitbart reported:
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.
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pc254 months, 4 weeks ago
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apparently she is not that wise
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http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/29/cn...
CNN Poll: Two-thirds think firefighters were discriminated against
WASHINGTON (CNN) — A new national poll suggests that nearly two-thirds of Americans think white firefighters in New Haven, Connecticut where discriminated against when the city tossed out the results of a promotion exam after too few minorities scored high enough on the test.
Monday the Supreme Court, in a five to four vote, ruled in favor of the white firefighters.
A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation national survey released Monday morning, as the Supreme Court handed down it's ruling, indicates that 65 percent of those questioned say the firefighters were victims of discrimination and should get promotions based on the test results, with 31 percent feeling that the city should a new test to make sure minority firefighters were not victims of discrimination. -
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antibrainwasher4 months, 3 weeks ago
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Not that you whining coward cons would notice, but she has more experience and a better resume than ANY of the current SCJ's on the bench when they started.
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Leave it to the lockstepping bleeding cyst lickers to find fault with anything Obama does, because what else are they going to do, with their party of hypocrites screwing married women and Argentinian reporters and anything that moves while preaching evangelical superstition and racism.-
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gwhiddon4 months, 3 weeks ago
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Wow, you are SO rational sound, brainwashed.
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You sound like a Fascist Nazi bigot.
Nazi - http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Nazi
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wtagg4 months, 3 weeks ago
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My question is *have you voted for incompetence* if it is everywhere.
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We, as the citizenry, are the makers of our own environment. We empower the individuals that represent us (that may be stretching the definition) to behave exactly in the manner that they do.
As I have quoted before, the Christmas we get, we deserve.
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truthiness4 months, 3 weeks ago
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Since joining the Second Circuit in 1998, Sotomayor has authored over 150 opinions, addressing a wide range of issues, in civil cases. To date, two of these decisions have been overturned by the Supreme Court; a third is under review and likely to be reversed. In those two cases (and likely the third), Sotomayor’s opinion was rejected by the Supreme Court’s more conservative majority and adopted by its more liberal dissenters (including Justice Souter). Those outcomes suggest that Sotomayor’s views would in many respects be similar to those of Justice Souter.
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from the SCOTUS own blog, written prior to the decision in this article.. which makes it 3 confirmed overturns.
I post this here b/c the title says she has been overturned 66% of the time, which is not true according to the SCOTUS.-
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Pecossam4 months, 3 weeks ago
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truthiness,
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Rather than the SCOTUS, that sounds more like something from the SCROTUM; aka the LEFTIST-VIEW-POINT Court blog.
But seriously, there is one sentence that causes MUCH concern:
"Those outcomes suggest that Sotomayor’s views would in many respects be similar to those of Justice Souter." EXACTLY: Our Supreme Court DOESN'T NEED another with the same misapprehension of Our Constitution and Original Intent.
"Souter" --- the very name evokes feelings of something soft and yielding, such as "milquetoast" or "touchy-feely". Yep, we definitely don't need another of that breed. If Mr. "57 states" truly cared about America, rather than his Socialist Agenda, he'd nominate Justice Robert Bork --- who is definitely NOT a "milquetoast" and was unfairly demonized during the "media lynching" at his Senate confirmation hearing. He's a GREAT jurist and would make an OUTSTANDING Supreme Court Justice.
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Dionys4 months, 3 weeks ago
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Breaking: Supreme Court Overrules Sotomayor On Ricci Decision ...More- Sotomayor Overturned 66% of Time
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Two lies in one title, PC you've outdone yourself.
First -- it's hardly "breaking."
Second -- only her SCOTUS record shows a particular overturning rate (which isn't 66%), and she's above average among her peers regarding this rate. -
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bubba24 months, 3 weeks ago
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Sotomayor was not "wrong" about anything.
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Also, she is NOT the "only" judge below the Supreme Court that ruled on this case. There were SEVEN other federal judges who decided the case at the district and circuit levels, and their decisions were the same - unanimous.
ALL of those judges followed LEGAL precedent regarding the laws for discrimination and affirmative action.
Only as of TODAY, with the SCOTUS ruling, are those precedents now modified if not overturned. FUTURE rulings on similar cases will NOW tend to follow the SCOTUS in their rulings.
It is very apparent that whoever wrote this "article" is absolutely NO expert whatsoever in this (or probably any other) area.
http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/16185/
Sotomayor and her panel colleagues were bound by longstanding precedent and federal law. They applied the law without regard to their personal views and unanimously affirmed the district court ruling and the full 2nd circuit backed them up.
In other words, Sotomayor is anything but an outlier. She and the seven other federal judges who decided the case at the district and circuit levels were unanimous in determining that precedent and federal law required rejection of the suits.-
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Pecossam4 months, 3 weeks ago
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bubba2,
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You state:
"Also, she is NOT the "only" judge below the Supreme Court that ruled on this case. There were SEVEN other federal judges who decided the case at the district and circuit levels, and their decisions were the same - unanimous."
Then I would suggest Congress ready the "Articles of Impeachment" for these Jurists, as they have clearly demonstrated a (purposeful?) misunderstanding of the Constitution. Racial Politics should NEVER be allowed to interfere with a Court's deliberations or its rulings.
"If they're not cool with Original Intent, then they're not ready to rule from the Bench."
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stephen-johnson4 months, 3 weeks ago
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It's not so much Sotomayor's position on affirmative action in the Ricci case that is troubling as is her one paragraph attempt to dismiss it. Even Cabranes, a fellow Hispanic liberal judge on the circuit was outraged, and issued a dissent. Ricci generated 93 pages of legal commentary from the SCOTUS, but all Sotomayor came up with is one paragraph? How much legal scholarship was displayed by her there?
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The 5-4 decision on the actual case hides the 9-0 rebuke that Sotomayor's panel got from the SCOTUS on how they handled it.-
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mesodude4 months, 3 weeks ago
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"It's not so much Sotomayor's position on affirmative action in the Ricci case that is troubling as is her one paragraph attempt to dismiss it. "
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--Is one-paragraph too long or too short and why? What's your basis for mentioning this?
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djn3nunez34 months, 3 weeks ago
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Of Alito's cases reviewed by the Supreme Court, 100% were overturned.
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She found that New Haven was forced to throw out the test to legally comply with provisions of Title VII.
She read the existing law, found that New Haven was complying with the law, and dismissed Ricci's appeal.
The Supreme Court has now overturned the precident of the existing law she ruled on. -
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Wolfie20074 months, 3 weeks ago
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The best thing about the ruling was the dissenting opinion written by Justice Ginsberg. She sure worked Sotomayor over for not allowing a hearing on the case in the beginning. All the 9 of the justices agreed she totally mishandled the case even the four who voted to stay the verdict.
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pc254 months, 3 weeks ago
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http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=45d56e6f...
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But despite the praise from some of her former clerks, and warm words from some of her Second Circuit colleagues, there are also many reservations about Sotomayor. Over the past few weeks, I've been talking to a range of people who have worked with her, nearly all of them former law clerks for other judges on the Second Circuit or former federal prosecutors in New York. Most are Democrats and all of them want President Obama to appoint a judicial star of the highest intellectual caliber who has the potential to change the direction of the court. Nearly all of them acknowledged that Sotomayor is a presumptive front-runner, but nearly none of them raved about her. They expressed questions about her temperament, her judicial craftsmanship, and most of all, her ability to provide an intellectual counterweight to the conservative justices, as well as a clear liberal alternative.
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PhillyPhan4 months, 3 weeks ago
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Just wondering.... Could someone crowing here about Judge Sotomayor's "66% reversal rate" please cite your authority for that figure. Does that percentage include cases that were never appealed such that her decision was not even reviewed by a higher court? If it does not include all the cases she decided, what is her percentage of reversals when you consider the entire body of her work as a trial judge and as a judge on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
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