[Pflienews] PharmFacts E-News Update: Sotomayor was wrong on reverse racism case; pro-lifers receive death threats from abortoholics

Mon Jun 29 14:26:07 MDT 2009

*PharmFacts E-News Update -- 29 Jun 2009 AD

*Stay tuned....300 boxes of Sotomayor documents were obtained over the 
weekend...

Supreme Court Confirms: Sotomayor was Wrong
Sanctioned discrimination against firefighters for color of skin

WASHINGTON, June 29 /Christian Newswire/ -- The United States Supreme 
Court reversed Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor in the now-famous 
New Haven firefighters case. Although Judge Sotomayor and two of her 
colleagues did not even think the case worthy of a published opinion, 
the Supreme Court said the case presented "two provisions of Title VII 
to be interpreted and reconciled, with few, if any, precedents in the 
courts of appeals discussing the issue."

Concerned Women for America (CWA) President Wendy Wright said, "This 
decision sends a disturbing message that Sonia Sotomayor, as a judge, 
sanctioned discrimination against people because of the color of their 
skin. This validates concerns that Judge Sotomayor's judicial philosophy 
reflects her personal bias, as expressed in speeches and the 
controversial groups to which she has belonged, that people should be 
discriminated against based on their ethnicity or sex. No one in a 
burning building cares if their fire chief is a minority. A 
firefighter's qualifications can determine if innocent people will live 
or die. Yet Judge Sotomayor denied qualified firefighters a promotion in 
order to advance her ethnic politics. Judge Sotomayor's decision in the 
Ricci case proves that questions about her fitness to serve at the 
Supreme Court are legitimate. Her decisions suggest such an enormous 
bias in her philosophy that we could not fault anyone in her courtroom 
for questioning her impartiality."

"In choosing a Supreme Court nominee, President Obama said 'I will seek 
someone who understands that justice ... is also about how our laws 
affect the daily realities of people's lives, whether they can make a 
living, and care for their families, whether they feel safe in their 
homes, and welcome in their own nation. I view that quality of empathy, 
of understanding and identifying with peoples hopes and struggles as an 
essential ingredient for arriving at just decisions and outcomes.' Judge 
Sotomayor's unjust decision in the Ricci case shows that she does not 
fit that description. She denied firefighters the well-deserved 
promotions and, by doing so, was willing to make people unsafe in their 
homes."

Mario Diaz, Esq., CWA's Policy Director for Legal Issues, said the Ricci 
case "exposes not only bias, but arrogance on the part of a judge at the 
brink of getting a lifetime appointment to the highest court of the 
land. How she thought this case did not even deserve a published opinion 
is beyond comprehension. It seems ethnicity and gender not only 'play a 
role' in her judgment as she has said, but they actually control her 
judgment to the point where she can no longer look at the facts of a 
case impartially. Looking at her record, it seems her passion for 
minorities is such that she would need to recuse herself from any case 
involving a minority party in litigation.

"Unless she renounces her own statements and has some strong explanation 
for her actions in cases like Ricci at her hearings, I don't see how any 
Senator, or even the President himself, can feel confident about her 
fitness to serve at the Supreme Court."

Christian Newswire 
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