Turning Tail on the 14th Amendment
I just finished reading most of the Supreme Court's decision on Ricci vs John DeStephano et al. The decision, which affirms that Title VII does not infer the right to discriminate against white males simply because they are white is the right decision. But it isn't the end and the Court managed to shirk its responsibility to the Constitution and the people of the United States.
As much as I admire the Justices who concurred and overturned the Appeals Court decision, I'm appalled that they decided NOT to elevate this case to a 14th amendment decision. This nonsense has been going on since all the way back to the Bakke decision wherein quotas kept a white man out of the college of his choice. It's all about quotas and quotas are racist. How much longer can the court avoid this confrontation?
The failure of this court to settle this once and for all will help keep this nation divided and will generate endless Title VII cases because it didn't establish precedent. It merely gave justice to twenty New Haven firefighters who were obviously wronged. Case closed. Bring on the next one!
You might think that the opinions of the court are legal gobbledygook but guess again. They are well-written and even a lay person, such as myself, can understand them. This brings me to my next point: Justice Ginsburg, in an act of extreme silliness had this gem in her dissent signed by her liberal cronies. " The white firefighters who scored high on New Haven's promotional exam understandably attract this Court's sympathy. But they had no vested right to promotion."
What the hell kind of statement is that? To extrapolate, I assume Justice Ginsburg thinks that those minority candidates who scored poorly on the exam DO have a vested right to promotion?
This is the kind of stuff that you can't get unless you do your due diligence and research. And this is why nominee Sotomayor needs to be filibustered. We simply can't afford another "sympathetic" intellectually challenged twit on the highest court in the land.
There you have it! 93 pages boiled down, rendered into a few paragraphs. Who needs lawyers anyway?
As much as I admire the Justices who concurred and overturned the Appeals Court decision, I'm appalled that they decided NOT to elevate this case to a 14th amendment decision. This nonsense has been going on since all the way back to the Bakke decision wherein quotas kept a white man out of the college of his choice. It's all about quotas and quotas are racist. How much longer can the court avoid this confrontation?
The failure of this court to settle this once and for all will help keep this nation divided and will generate endless Title VII cases because it didn't establish precedent. It merely gave justice to twenty New Haven firefighters who were obviously wronged. Case closed. Bring on the next one!
You might think that the opinions of the court are legal gobbledygook but guess again. They are well-written and even a lay person, such as myself, can understand them. This brings me to my next point: Justice Ginsburg, in an act of extreme silliness had this gem in her dissent signed by her liberal cronies. " The white firefighters who scored high on New Haven's promotional exam understandably attract this Court's sympathy. But they had no vested right to promotion."
What the hell kind of statement is that? To extrapolate, I assume Justice Ginsburg thinks that those minority candidates who scored poorly on the exam DO have a vested right to promotion?
This is the kind of stuff that you can't get unless you do your due diligence and research. And this is why nominee Sotomayor needs to be filibustered. We simply can't afford another "sympathetic" intellectually challenged twit on the highest court in the land.
There you have it! 93 pages boiled down, rendered into a few paragraphs. Who needs lawyers anyway?
