Thursday, May 28, 2009

The 'Empathy' Nominee - WSJ.com


The 'Empathy' Nominee - WSJ.com
Posted by Frank Smith at 28.5.09

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

Democrat/liberals want the Hispanic vote so there'll be no stopping her -Sonia Sotomayor Hispanic nominee for Supreme Court.

President Obama doesn't care a bit about who's best, he cares about who can benefit him politically and the Democratic Party.

May 28, 2009 at 10:03 AM
Anonymous said...

Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonya Sotomayor may be pro maternity, but her only legacy, hence far, in judicial decision-making has been her abysmal judgment on the New Haven CT firefighter case which "threw out the promotion test because the white firefighters did so much better than minority test takers," although the test itself was not proven to be biased in any way.

There are a large number of similar civil service job challenges by employees and applicants across the nation who are citing "racial prejudice" for not being able to get hired or promoted to government jobs.

May 28, 2009 at 10:06 AM
Anonymous said...

The Sonia Sotomayor Latina Supreme Court Nominee.
WASHINGTON D.C. - While some GOP Senators offered muted, sometimes admiring, responses, and seemed to be taking their cues from a quieter group of voices within the party cautioning that to oppose the country's first Latina Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor would amount to political suicide for the Republican Party!

May 28, 2009 at 10:10 AM
Anonymous said...

President Barack Obama has nominated Second Circuit appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor as his nominee to the Supreme Court.

Sonia Sotomayor, when she is confirmed, will become only the third woman and the first Hispanic to serve on the Supreme Court, replacing the retiring Justice David Souter.

May 28, 2009 at 10:14 AM
Anonymous said...

It would seem that Alderman Sherwood was correct in demanding that only a Puerto Rican be considered for the vacancy on the council last year. According to the Supreme Court nominee, a Latina female will always make a better decision than a white male, so obviously Sherwood is familiar with the fact that Latinas are superior to white males.

May 28, 2009 at 11:14 AM
Anonymous said...

Sherwood and the rest of the Democratic alderpersons voted against an Hispanic woman, Louisa Leal when she wanted to replace a BOE member who moved. Louisa, some say was manuvered out of a second four year term when the word got out that some BOE members wanted her to be the chairman and dump Kochel! So much for democracy.

Instead they went gung ho for Lucretia Holley who has done absolutely nothing on the BOE excpt to show up and vote for what ever Doris Kurtz wants.

May 28, 2009 at 12:18 PM
Anonymous said...

Preident Obama has lauded Judge Sonia Sotomayor, his pick to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter, repeating his line that she has more experience than anyone currently sitting on the bench when they were nominated.

May 28, 2009 at 4:07 PM
Anonymous said...

Judge Sotomayor claims that a Latina judge can come to a better judgment than a white male because of her life experience.

Using her logic wouldn't a jurist who has been a parent have better insights on matters like abortion, marriage and divorce than a woman like Sotomayor who has never been married or given birth to a child?

May 28, 2009 at 4:14 PM
Anonymous said...

God help us!

May 29, 2009 at 12:52 AM
Anonymous said...

The liberals are claiming that the firefighter test was biased, but the test was found to test nothing but knowledge of what a firefighter should already know about his/her job.

Apparently it is OK with the Dems that the minority candidates know so little about their own job that they failed the test, but should be promoted anyway simply because of their race?

May 29, 2009 at 1:01 AM
Why the President Must Withdraw Sotomayor from consideration said...

Can you imagine if the President of the United States nominated a judge to the U.S. Supreme Court who said this:

"My experience as a white man will make me a better judge than a Latina woman would be."

Or could you imagine if that same judge ruled from the bench to deny 18 African-American firefighters a promotion just because of their skin color?

That judge would be called a bigot -- and in my judgment, rightly so! Would there be any doubt that he would be FORCED to WITHDRAW his nomination for the Supreme Court?

May 29, 2009 at 2:18 PM
Anonymous said...

NEW HAVEN CT: Seventeen white and two Hispanic firefighters in New Haven scored high enough on a test to win promotion, but the city threw out the results after finding that no black firefighters hit the threshold.

The white firefighters sued, alleging reverse discrimination, and lost in federal district court. The case then landed in Judge Sotomayor’s courtroom at the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan. In an hour-long hearing last year she vigorously dives into the dispute.

For the first half-hour, she and the presiding judge, Rosemary Pooler, fire questions at the firefighters’ lawyer, Karen Lee Torre. One Sotomayor remark that caught our attention comes early on, when the judge raised the technical issue of whether it was proper to name the New Haven mayor as a defendant in the case.

Ms. Torre cited comments the mayor made backing the city’s Civil Service Board in throwing out the test, to which Judge Sotomayor snapped back: “Politicians every day get up in all types of fora and make what I consider the most ridiculous arguments, some of them illegal.”

For the second half hour, they question the attorney representing New Haven, Richard Roberts. Throughout the oral argument, Sotomayor repeatedly came back to the notion that the city had a right to take another crack at building a better test if it feared the results of the first one were discriminatory.

In her rebuttal, Ms. Torre argued that the city’s interest wasn’t giving minorities a fair shake, but “race racketeering” to benefit “cronies” of the mayor.

Judge Sotomayor paid little attention to that claim, which the city has denied. “We’re not suggesting that unqualified people be hired, the city’s not suggesting that,” she told Ms. Torre. But “if your test is going to always put a certain group at the bottom of the pass rate so they’re never, ever going to be promoted, and there is a fair test that could be devised that measures knowledge in a more substantive way, then why shouldn’t the city have an opportunity to try to look and see if it can develop a second pass at apple.

Amen!

May 29, 2009 at 4:23 PM
Anonymous said...

Two things are sure to happen this summer of 2009: The Supreme Court will overturn Sotomayor's panel's ruling.

And, barring some huge hidden scandal, Sotomayor will be elevated to that same Supreme Court.

May 29, 2009 at 4:32 PM
Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...

Two things are sure to happen this summer of 2009: The Supreme Court will overturn Sotomayor's panel's ruling.

And, barring some huge hidden scandal, Sotomayor will be elevated to that same Supreme Court.

But will Sotomayor be there in time to vote against overturning her own ruling, you know like the Democrats do on the city council, vote on their own issues?

Luckily she will still be in the minority, so her votes won't much matter.

May 31, 2009 at 1:16 PM

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