President Obama applauds the decision as a victory for equality under the law. Not.
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.
SCOTUS Blog background here. More background here and here.
Tom Goldstein: “Ricci result: Kennedy finds a violation of Title VII. An outright reversal 5-4…the plaintiff firefighters won. New Haven violated the law by throwing out the test.”
Sotomayor = Not so wise now.
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The Ricci opinion is now available here.
At Cato, Roger Pilon and Ilya Shapiro weigh in.
And Wendy Long at the Judicial Confirmation Network responds to the decision:
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