reverse discrimination

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) has taken his case against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor to the public, explaining why he plans to vote against a nominee that even some in his own party are saying is among the most qualified candidates for the high court in decades.
Still, it’s not completely clear if he’s warning conservatives [...]

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) is a former State Supreme Court judge.  So it’s hard to believe that he really doesn’t understand what judges do. Yet that’s exactly what his line of questioning to Judge Sonia Sotomayor on day three of her confirmation hearing this morning suggested.
Here’s Cornyn, speaking to Sotomayor with a tone of severe [...]

Under intense grilling from Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) this afternoon, Judge Sonia Sotomayor was forced to confront directly her words in various speeches to minority law students over the past two decades in which she said that gender and ethnicity can affect how a judge views a case, and may in some situations affect the [...]

Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), questioning Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor about her role in the case of Ricci v. deStefano, this morning repeated the faulty analysis offered by conservative Republican groups right after that case was decided by the Supreme Court on a 5-4 margin in June.
“All nine of the justices disagreed with your handling [...]

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 better on a written exam [...]

The news is already abuzz with the start of the confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s first nominee to the United States Supreme Court.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is getting all sorts of suggested questions from law professors today, ranging from the role of federalism in our constitutional system (from Stanford law prof — [...]

Somehow, the 5-4 ruling from the Supreme Court earlier today in Ricci v. DeStefano has been turned into a 9-0 ruling against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, according to some conservative critics.
“NOT EVEN ONE JUSTICE APPROVED SOTOMAYER IN RICCI CASE,” blares the headline of a statement from Wendy Long, counsel to the Judicial Confirmation Network, [...]

Interest groups are already lining up to use the Supreme Court’s decision today in Ricci v. DeStefano in their favor, whether they support or oppose the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the high court.
As Aaron noted earlier, the Supreme Court this morning decided that the city of New Haven violated the federal civil rights [...]

In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court has  ruled in favor of the white firefighters in the Ricci v. DeStefano case, overturning a U.S. Court of Appeals ruling signed by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, MSNBC is reporting.
The case involved charges of reverse discrimination after a test for promotion in the New Haven, Conn., fire [...]

Amid the debate over Sotomayor’s supposedly “activist” move joining the per curiam opinion in the reverse discrimination case of Ricci v. DeStefano, there’s been little actual analysis of the legal standards the Second Circuit Court of Appeals panel’s decision was based on.
Although that may be because the panel did not issue a long written opinion [...]