Zero, zip, nada, none of the justices believed that Sonia Sotomayor correctly handled the case by issuing only a single substantive paragraph granting summary judgment to the city of New Haven.
In essence, the entire Supreme Court slammed Sotomayor.
Justice Ginsburg writes for the minority: “why, if final disposition by this Court is indeed appropriate, New Haven should be the prevailing party.”
Translation: Justice Ginsburg, does not believe that a summary disposition in favor of New Haven is appropriate. The entire Supreme Court slammed Sotomayor for her decision.
Sotomayor is not fit to be a Supreme Court justice.
I tried to explain this several weeks ago to a member of the Dallas Morning News Op-Ed blog. To protect the totally clueless, I’m not going to name the person or link to her post.
The DMN editor insisted on citing a very badly-written puff piece on the case that completely misstated the legal question before the Supreme Court as well as the facts in the case. I insisted that she look at the source documents. She refused. The next day, she wrote a sob story about the diminishing quality of comments on the blog. She has yet to understand that it’s the quality of blog posts that is declining.
The mainstream media is in total meltdown. Not only are they in the pocket for every liberal cause, but they are unable or unwilling to do actual research and admit when they are wrong.
I don’t know how the mainstream media is going to spin this piece. I’ve already noticed that the headlines say that the court ruled in favor of white firefighters when, in fact, one of the persons suing was Hispanic.
Thank God for the conservative members of the Supreme Court. Racial discrimination is wrong, regardless of who it benefits. We have elected our first black president. That in itself is proof that we no longer need racial quotas in the United States.
From Ed Whelan at National Review Online
Judge Sotomayor thought it appropriate to use an unpublished summary order to dispose of the claims of the New Haven firefighters in Ricci v. DeStefano. Today the Supreme Court issued 93 pages of opinions in the case that Sotomayor acted to bury.
Further, although there is a sharp 5-4 divide among the justices, not a single justice thought that Judge Sotomayor acted correctly in granting summary judgment for the City of New Haven.
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