Court Overturns Sotomayor: 5-4 Ruling in Favor of White Firefighters in Reverse Discrimination Case

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.

June 29, 2009 at 10:23 am - MSNBC
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Steve   June 29th, 2009 - 10:45 am

White males need not apply in a pc socialist society.

Green Eyes   June 29th, 2009 - 11:01 am

FINALLY, when so many people have been afraid of speaking the honest truth for fear of lawsuits, unpopularity or any other kind of retribution, these five brave individuals had the guts to do the right thing. They will certainly take plenty of heat for it, but to punish people because some were not able to qualify is simply wrong. Thank goodness there are still some people with a backbone in the high court. With the way our country is moving, we need them.

MX4U   June 29th, 2009 - 11:04 am

She’s a Brown Supremacist

Barry   June 29th, 2009 - 11:16 am

Ha, take that, Sonia!

edword   June 29th, 2009 - 11:18 am

So does she still get a seat on the bench? Probably. She’s a lynch-pin is Obama’s
“social-justice” agenda.

Anybody who thinks “reverse-discrimination” isn’t just another form of racism is mentally
ill–or liberal (which is the same thing basically).

JameS   June 29th, 2009 - 11:23 am

Good Job. Reverse Discrimination has been a problem for a long time. Twenty five years ago I worked through a temp agency. When a permanent job came up, it was between me and a black woman. I am not a racist, but she was worthless and everyone knew it. I could literally get four times as much work done as her. But the company was doing a lot of government contracts, and she filled the spot of two minorities….blacks and women. When she got the job, our co-workers were disgusted.

Oldbluesboy   June 29th, 2009 - 11:24 am

This was a no brainer and still had four judges dissenting???

Socialists, don’t be disheartened. Your racist judge may still get the confirmation with the help of the Obama Magic Factory. How corrupt can they get……………….

JameS   June 29th, 2009 - 11:28 am

By the way, I’m a liberal, in spite of my story above. I do not agree with using reverse discrimination to try to fight discrimination.

Aldebaran   June 29th, 2009 - 11:33 am

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the white firefighters “understandably attract this court’s sympathy. But they had no vested right to promotion.”

With all due respect, Justice Ginsburg is loony. The firefighters passed the same objective test that other non-white men have passed.

Don’t miss the new hit movie “Reality and Reason Take a Vacation” starring Ruth and Sonja!

Keeping It Real   June 29th, 2009 - 11:33 am

It is not as simple as it seems.New Haven was wrong to scrap the promotion exam.

I don’t expect most people on this web site to know why if they have had no training in law.

Lower courts do not have the duty to anticipate the Supreme Court’s new legal interpretations. Their responsibility is to apply the law as it stands when cases are before them.

Sotomayor,will still be confirmed to take Souter’s place on SCOTUS.

Knowing what usually goes on at breitbarf.It will be blah,blah Obama and Black people the rest of the day on this news thread.

Jan   June 29th, 2009 - 11:38 am

Liberals are not bothered by reverse discrimination and Affirmative Action practices, because
they actually welcome punishing White, Middle Class Achievers. (liberals are whatthey are because they have not resolved their own self-loathing and guilt issues, so they project it onto others)
Sotomayor may be racially biased and gender biased, and not a good choice, but if she doesn’t get the appointment, who is waiting in line behind her? Shudder to think.

dr jay   June 29th, 2009 - 11:52 am

THANK GOD

dr jay   June 29th, 2009 - 12:12 pm

so jameS you support the correct side hear but claim to be a liberal. does not that story you told clearly elucidate the defective mentality of your ideology.

Tzen   June 29th, 2009 - 12:57 pm

It should have been 9-0 for the firefighers.

Rebecca   June 29th, 2009 - 1:10 pm

I don’t know WHAT the heck is wrong with RB Ginsburg. Sympathy for whites? What a crock. How about just doing WHAT’S RIGHT AND LOGICAL? For crying out loud. This woman still lives in the 50’s, I guess. When a supreme court justice can no longer see in front of her, in the current day, she needs to go away. HOORAY FOR THE FIREFIGHTERS WHO WORKED THEIR BUTTS OFF AND PASSED THE TEST!!!!!!!!!!! I don’t care WHAT COLOR they are. I just can’t believe they have to fight against our supreme court to get justice.

Duggan   June 29th, 2009 - 1:36 pm

This woman is not high court material – just a political appointment. 60% of her appeals court decisions are reversed on appeal.

If you were 60% wrong at your job you would be fired. Unless you were a US senator or rep. LOL In that case you would have a lifetime job with the rubes putting you in office again every 6 years.

Wake up people! Term limits means voting the pigs out. Your next opportunity to limit terms of your own local pig is Nov 2010. See you at the polls.

@ Keeping it Real   June 29th, 2009 - 1:43 pm

It is very simple. It is you who don’t understand it. Typical self hating white liberal.

“The Supreme Court has ruled that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race”

That is all there is to it – not complicated or convoluted to even the most ordinary citizen – except of course you. They were discriminated against because of their race, which is white.

The only thing that amazes me is that they won the case – obviously there are 4 judges who think it is OK to discriminate against whites. That will probably change if the racist Sotomayor gets on the court. Then I guess you will be happy and it will be OK to discriminate against a person who is white.

Jamesb   June 29th, 2009 - 1:49 pm

Sure, we don’t want FIREFIGHTERS that get promoted because of MERIT! We want a “rainbow” of firefighters to save lives while risking their own, because the fit a quota. It takes a multicolored spectrum of firefighters to run INTO a burning builing instead of OUT OF IT, don’t white racists inderstand that? The death of this country will be P.C. garbage. The BEST PERSON for the job should GET THE JOB! Sotomayor is OBVIOUSLY NOT THE BEST PERSON for the job she is up for, just more poor decision making by Hussein Obama.

Dave   June 29th, 2009 - 1:50 pm

Well,the high court really goofed on this call,you see,Sotomayor is a “wise Latina woman” who knows what’s best for us in America(even if the decision discriminates against those awfully unwise Caucasian males that know nothing about democracy).

Gandhi's Fist   June 29th, 2009 - 1:59 pm

Called this when I first heard about it. Discrimination of any kind, against any racial group–even folks in the majority–is racism. By extension and practice Sotomayor is a racist. She’s given multiple speeches deriding “white men” and, unfailingly makes racist judgment after racist judgment. She is the worst SCOTUS nominee in modern times, possibly ever. If a white male nominee made a statement to the effect that “the experience of wise white men would be superior to that of a latina,” that would be the end of his career, yet this is the fertilizer she launches her’s on.

Also, I’m still convinced she may be Hugo Chavez in drag.

Gandhi's Fist   June 29th, 2009 - 2:13 pm

One more thing. If, in fact, it had been only the firefighters of color who passed the test, but didn’t get the promotion, what do you think would have happened? If you take it from this perspective, it is easy to see how loony the left really is. Further, R.B. Ginsberg is a judicial nut job. As an attorney for the ACLU (an un-American group if ever there was one) she advocated for pedophiles and their right to molest boys as young as 12 years old. It’s on record–look it up. She’s scum and so is Sotomayor. For her to dissent on this ruling means–of course–the other judges rulings was absolutely correct and followed, to the letter the intent and text of the constitution.

She is in!   June 29th, 2009 - 2:16 pm

This in no way will affect her confirmation. Choke on it!

Barack Eyed Peas   June 29th, 2009 - 2:36 pm

Either you pass the test, or you don’t. Pretty simple. Should we dumb down job requirements across the board? I didn’t go to college because I couldn’t afford it. Should I sue because I can’t be president of IBM?

H2K   June 29th, 2009 - 3:18 pm

So, if she is confirmed to the Supreme Court, then there won’t be a higher authority to overturn her prejudice judgements? Ah! Hmmm!
I think we know what to do, right?

Dr. Mary Pat Jordan   June 29th, 2009 - 4:28 pm

And, in the meantime, I will add the finishing touches to my Michael Jackson shrine in my basement. I bought a lock of his hair on Ebay over the weekend and it arrived today – only paid $1575 for it! Such an incredible find!

Later tonight, I’ll be attending a seance with some friends in hopes of making contact with Michael’s dearly departed spirit. We are trying to determine the true circumstances surrounding his death.

I have personally contacted both Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton in regards to Michael’s passing. The world is owed an explanation for this wonderful man’s untimely death. I personally think he was the victim of a right-wing conspiracy to destroy a black man that had risen to the top in his profession.

If you have doubts about that theory, look at what you worthless GOP’ers are trying to do the current president – Barack Obama. You can’t stand to see a successful black man outwit and outmaneuver you.

I mentioned in another blog that I am a strong believer Scientology . Well, just so you understand why Michael Jackson and Barack Obama are so successful, I should warn you that they both belonged to the Church of Scientology. So understand, that with Scientology behind us, we can DO NO WRONG. And, you will be UNABLE to defeat us!

Gandhi's Fist   June 29th, 2009 - 6:14 pm

Curious about how “wonderful” all those boys Michael fed “Jesus juice” to, think he is?

duncan   June 29th, 2009 - 6:17 pm

We can call Sotomayor RED SONJA

Far Right Wing Wacko   June 29th, 2009 - 6:46 pm

You silly Conservatives………this wont affect a damned thing. Still projected to be confirmed by a whopping 70 votes at least. Have fun with your miserable selves while you can! Ha, ha!

Next weeks shocker will be Wasilla’s own Caribou Barbie caught doing the nasty in a shed behind her trailer with a teen aged high school dropout neighbor boy….film at eleven!

Hypocrites   June 30th, 2009 - 11:16 am

I love how none of the usual libs on this site are commenting on this recent story:

http://www.breitbart.tv/wh-refuses-to-say-obama-will-veto-health-care-bill-that-would-violate-campaign-tax-pledge/

Huh where are you all? Yeah that’s what I thought.

Sheeesh!   June 30th, 2009 - 2:57 pm

Hypocrites,
You are on the wrong posting, stupid. The topic here is about the firefighters and the Supreme Court ruling. If you want to talk about health care go find the appropriate site.

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