Sunday, July 12, 2009

Sotomayor Supporters Take Aim at New Haven Firefighter - Political News - FOXNews.com

Posted by Frank Smith at 12.7.09

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Located in Washington, D.C. - "People For the American Way" monitors what it characterizes as "right-wing" activities, conducting rapid response, political lobbying, and volunteer mobilization.

In addition, the organization's affiliated foundation (People For the American Way Foundation) run a programs designed for politically progressive infrastructure where they are quietly targeting the Connecticut New Haven firefighters who are at the center of judge Sotomayor's most controversial rulings.

Also, People For the Foundation Programs include African American Religious Affairs which can mobilize and support progressive activism in African American congregations and communities.

July 12, 2009 at 4:24 PM
Anonymous said...

This will be another Joe the Plumber with the media trying to dig up anything that he may have ever done in his life.

They focused on a parking ticket that Joe the Plumber got, and somehow that was national news.

Why not focus on the Democrats appointing a racist to the Supreme Court instead?

July 12, 2009 at 4:37 PM
Anonymous said...

How typical of the opponents of Sotomayor: they think they're making a good point in equating "Joe the Plumber" and "Frank the Firefighter".

If Frank Ricci is as marginally qualified as a New Haven firefighter as Joe is as a plumber, then Frank should have been fired from the fire department ages ago according to "People for the American Way" - the Washington D.C. liberal advocacy group.

July 12, 2009 at 11:03 PM
Anonymous said...

The actions of the People for the American Way group explains very well who is attempting to discredit this firefighter.

It is the same tactic the Obama team used against "Joe the Plumber". Don't worry about the facts, just attack and minimize the firefighter.

In this case Frank Ricci.

July 12, 2009 at 11:12 PM
Anonymous said...

"With the Supreme Court's decision in Ricci v. DeStefano, we can now report that Sonia Sotomayor is even crazier than Ruth Bader Ginsburg."

— Syndicated columnist Ann Coulter

July 13, 2009 at 9:14 AM
Anonymous said...

But a wise Latina will always make a better decision than a white male!

July 13, 2009 at 11:53 AM
Anonymous said...

WASHINGTON D.C.- How Ricci Almost Disappeared.

For all the publicity about the Supreme Court's 5-4 reversal of Judge Sonia Sotomayor's decision (with two colleagues) to reject a discrimination suit by a group of firefighters against New Haven, CT, one curious aspect of the case has been largely overlooked.

That is the likelihood that but for a chance discovery by a fourth member of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, the now-triumphant 18 firefighters (17 white and one Hispanic) might well have seen their case, Ricci v. DeStefano, disappear into obscurity, with no triumph, no national publicity and no Supreme Court review.

The reason is that by electing on Feb. 15, 2008, to dispose of the case by a cursory, unsigned summary order, Judges Sotomayor, Rosemary Pooler and Robert Sack avoided circulating the decision in a way likely to bring it to the attention of other 2nd Circuit judges, including the six who later voted to rehear the case.

And if the Ricci case -- which ended up producing one of the Supreme Court's most important race decisions in many years -- had not come to the attention of those six judges, it would have been an unlikely candidate for Supreme Court review. The justices almost never review summary orders, which represent the unanimous judgment of three appellate judges that the case in question presents no important issues.

Why the legal move (unpublished summary order) by Judge Sonia Sotomayor to bury the Ricci case...

July 13, 2009 at 3:03 PM
Anonymous said...

The Ricci Case...

...Came to the attention of one Judge, Jose Cabranes through a report in the New Haven Register newspaper. It quoted a complaint by Karen Lee Torre, the firefighters' lawyer, that she had expected a reasoned legal opinion, instead of an unpublished summary order, on what she saw as the most significant race case to come before the Circuit Court in 20 years.

According to 2nd Circuit sources, Jugdge Cabranes, who lives in New Haven, saw the newspaper article and looked up the briefs and the earlier ruling against the firefighters by federal district Judge Janet Arterton.

New Haven Judge Cabranes decided that this was a very important case indeed, and made a rare request for the full 2nd Circuit to hold an en- banc rehearing so that the Ricci Case would not just disappeared into thin air.

July 13, 2009 at 5:04 PM
Anonymous said...

What that will be Judge Sotomayor's answer if she is asked about the Ricci summary order in this week's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing remains to be seen.

July 13, 2009 at 5:13 PM
Anonymous said...

Today's WTIC 1080 public poll:


A Number Of Liberal Organizations Are Attacking Frank Ricci, Who Sued The Mayor Of New Haven For Reverse Discrimination. Is He Fair Game?
Yes
( 19% )
No
( 81% )

July 15, 2009 at 1:25 PM

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