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supreme court overrules sotomayor, rules in favor of white firefighters
Published Jun. 29, 2009Views: 704
WASHINGTON – 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.
What is obviously a correct decision to many people, this was decided 5-4...scary, huh?
"A controversial decision by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor was just overruled by the current Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision, which probably means that Justice Kennedy was the deciding vote. The ruling said that 20 white firefighters who were denied a promotion after they took a leadership test were unfairly discriminated against based on their race. Sotomayor had previously ruled that discriminating based on race was acceptable in this situation.
The reversal will add more flame to the fires of her controversial attitudes towards race, which were ignited when her "wise Latina" comments were made public:
I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."
by Jill Bandes
Filed under: Government
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Actually, if they worked this would never have happened and would not have gone to court at all. Good decision by the court. this was obvious discrimination.
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