Justice Sotomayor gets *&%$^-Slapped, Hilarity Ensues

So, the SCotUS decided recently that race statistics alone are not good enough to determine the value of a test for hiring practices. To recap what happened: a bunch of firefighters in New Haven, CT, wrote a test to determine whether they should be eligible for promotion. White guys and latinos scored well enough for immediate promotion, whereas not a single black applicant scored any better than a "future promotion" grade. The city, for fear of being sued by blacks, threw out the test results. In a fit of poetic justice, the white and latino applicants sued. Justice Sotomayor, in a cowardly unsigned opinion, declared that the city was justified, as a lack of diversity and the threat of being sued were justification enough to drop the test. In essence, she told the white firefighters that their demographic could be oppressed at will. Naturally, the lads used their constitutional right to appeal to a higher judicially activist body. Their faith in the court system is clearly greater than mine.

Shockingly, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the white and latino firefighters were right. Hundreds of thousands of dollars later, we have legalistic confirmation that affirmative action is code for racism, just with a different victim. Lovely. Naturaly, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote a screeching dissent, decrying the precedent being set. After all, without victim identity groups, how will Democrat politics work? However, even that raging loon couldn't defend Justice Sotomayor's unsigned opinion. Ginsburg wrote something about Sotomayor not having the time in such a minor ruling to fully delineate her arguments, but I would say it's a poor workman that lets someone else blame his tools. Regardless, despite a split decision, the Supreme Court was in agreement that Justice Sotomayor's reasoning was either just plain wrong or so poorly articulated as to carry the same weight.

So where do we stand? I really think Ann Coulter says it best; "This suggests that a wise Jewess, due to the richness of her life experiences, might come to a better judgment than a Latina judge would."

Mrrrow!