About The Supreme Court Decision Overturning Sotomayer
June 29th, 2009 . by glendeanI just wanted to throw my two cents in on this subject of the Supreme Court overturning the New Haven case.
On the surface, it isn’t really that embarrassing. The liberals sided with the liberal, and the Constitutionalists sided with the law. Nothing really unusual. What looks so bad though is that Sotomayor did not even hear the case. Even Ginsburg in her dissent, said the case deserved to be heard.
Now about Sotomayor saying that she is a product of affirmative action. Honestly, I don’t have a problem with Princeton allowing people in on this basis. People who are equally “undeserving” of admissions to Ivy League schools get in quite often as legacies or just by connections. If Princeton wants to increase minority admissions, then they have a right to do so, as far as I’m concerned. So does a private business, in my opinion. (note, I am talking about my opinion. The law, Title VII says nobody has a right to discriminate) They should not, however, be forced to by government. A government employer, on the other hand, should never discriminate. The court was right in their decision today. What shocks me is that four Supreme Court Justices disagreed. I find that fact amazing.
But getting back to Sotomayer being a product of affirmative action. I don’t understand how a Latina woman from the Bronx has less opportunity than an Italian woman from the Bronx. Help me out here folks. At some point this country has got to get passed race and nationality.
whitey wins another one… the white christian party approves.
whitey wins another one… the white christian party approves.
That is stupid. Do you have any idea what this case was about?
I don’t think kc has any conceptual continuity about much of anything, really. There’s no thinking going on in that micro-encephalic headspace; just random neurons wildly firing, whenever it’s stimulated by anything what’s disagreeable to it’s small vision of The World as it Should Be According to Whatever it’s Heard from Someone Else. Just a diarrhetic regurgitation of someone else’s talking points.
Get a cogent thought out of kc, you better mark a calendar.
Oh, to Jeffraham, have you gotten a job yet? I have a half-eaten bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken I’m gonna leave at an intersection just off of Briley Pky. on my way to Tune later today. You can get to it if you hurry.
I’m thinking of the CATS, of course. You stay out of it.
Oh! Rusty’s come out of his poutrage!
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(excuse me)
Senator Al Franken.
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JP, your using the term ‘pout’ in any context is textbook projection. There’s not a man alive who pouts better’n you do, as evidenced by your entire life history (pathetic as it is).
Have you ever, JP, not pouted? Can you describe a situation where you actually did something that didn’t involve crying on someone’s shoulder?
You quit your job, pouting because you felt that ‘the evil company is using pirate software, and I’m not gonna take it anymore! I’m gonna quit and pout!’ How’s that working out for you? Still looking for a job in a industry where you’re blacklisted?
Your candy ass got kicked off of MCB, and you pouted for days, wailing to high heaven to anyone who would listen. Your comments here got caught in a spam filter here just last month or so, and you pouted for a weekend, screeching like a raped banshee to Glen until he finally cleared the filter. But, epic pout, Jeffraham Prestonian style. It’s a pattern.
Again, couple weeks ago, you screeched again in a comment “I’m leaving! Serr8d edited someone’s comments! WAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!11!1!1!!!! What a freakin’ pussy you are. Your cats are closer to being manly than you will ever be.
But that’s not why I left. I left because Glen actually listened to you.
WTF, Glen?
Even Ginsburg in her dissent, said the case deserved to be heard.
Cite, please. Specifically, the passage that states that the appeals court erred in refusing to hear the case. In any case, Sotomayor was the junior justice on the panel that heard it, and the case was most likely disposed of via summary judgment to avoid setting a binding precedent on a highly contentious issue, a move one would expect judicial conservatives to applaud, if they didn’t have a vested interest in sniping.
But that’s not why I left. I left because Glen actually listened to you.
Poutrage!
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I feel so sorry for Rusty, but I make a killing bottling his tears.
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JP, your using the term ‘pout’ in any context is textbook projection. There’s not a man alive who pouts better’n you do, as evidenced by your entire life history (pathetic as it is).
Have you ever, JP, not pouted? Can you describe a situation where you actually did something that didn’t involve crying on someone’s shoulder?
You quit your job, pouting because you felt that ‘the evil company is using pirate software, and I’m not gonna take it anymore! I’m gonna quit and pout!’ How’s that working out for you? Still looking for a job in a industry where you’re blacklisted?
Your candy ass got kicked off of MCB, and you pouted for days, wailing to high heaven to anyone who would listen. Your comments here got caught in a spam filter here just last month or so, and you pouted for a weekend, screeching like a raped banshee to Glen until he finally cleared the filter. But, epic pout, Jeffraham Prestonian style. It’s a pattern.
Again, couple weeks ago, you screeched again in a comment “I’m leaving! Serr8d edited someone’s comments! WAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!11!1!1!!!! What a freakin’ pussy you are. Your cats are closer to being manly than you will ever be.
But that’s not why I left. I left because Glen actually listened to you.
WTF, Glen?
Speaking of the Democracy that was MCB:
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William has taken down two Nashville Blogs. An impressive record.
(’cause repeating things makes them even truthier!)
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You helped JP, just not as much as William.
May be it is time to get past race. Obama implied as much himself. But was this the way to do it?
Sotomayor ruled according to the law as it was. She had many precedents which she sited. That the case was not brought before the court was because New Haven didn’t promote the guys who passed, and so there was no discrimination. It was simply the test that was discriminatory by the civil right law.
Who is it who is always yelling about “making law from the bench”? This is what the Supreme Court just did. They legislated from the bench, overturning years of precedent.