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Sessions Grills Sotomayor on Firefighters’ Reverse Discrimination Case

By | 07.14.09 | 11:00 am

The Senate Judiciary Committee’s ranking member, Sen. Jeff Sessions  (R-Ala.) just grilled Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor on her ruling in Ricci v. DeStefano, the controversial case in which Sotomayor, as part of a three-judge panel, denied the firefighters’ claims that they had a right to promotions because they scored More…