Ricci v. DeStefano

As promised, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) today issued his full statement explaining why he will vote not to confirm Judge Sonia Sotomayor as a Supreme Court justice.
After a lengthy dissertation denouncing Democrats for blocking the confirmation of previous Republican nominees, McConnell said that despite his strong belief that the president is entitled to great deference [...]

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 [...]

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 — [...]

The unsurprising decision in Ricci v. DeStefano is making for political fodder against President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee.

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 [...]