Supreme Court Rebukes Sotomayor
June 29, 2009
A quick break from vacation to weigh in on the Ricci-Sotomaor story. The U.S. Supreme Court handed Judge Sotomayor an embarrassing rebuke on the eve of her confirmation hearings by throwing out her now infamous Ricci ruling. Justice Alito’s concurring opinion (beginning on pg. 42) brutally exposes the raw identity politics at the heart of this legal travesty and skewers the expression of “sympathy” by the Court’s minority:
“ … ‘sympathy’ is not what petitioners have a right to demand. What they have a right to demand is evenhanded enforcement of the law – of Title VII’s prohibition against discrimination based on race. And that is what, until today’s decision, has been denied them.”