Posted on 06/03/2009 2:15:07 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
For Jeff Sessions, this moment has been 23 years in the making.
If things had gone as planned in 1986, the conservative Alabama prosecutor would have been confirmed to a lifetime appointment to a federal judgeship. But allegations of racism cast Sessions as a throwback to the Jim Crow South, and the Senate Judiciary Committee voted down his nomination. Stunned and embarrassed, Sessions returned home to Mobile as a man undone.
Soon he turned to politics, was elected to the Senate and joined the very committee that denied him a seat on the federal bench. He ascended from behind the scenes to the panel's top Republican spot, and it now falls to him to weigh the GOP's competing interests and political calculations while guiding the fractured party through the upcoming confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Yesterday, the judge went to the Capitol for private meetings with Sessions and other key senators.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Leave no racial or gender quotas behind
Now that "wise Latina woman" Sotomayor has been outed as a racist pinhead, hysterical liberals are desperately trying to "explain" away her racist ruling in the soon-to-be-overruled case of Ricci v. DeStefano, insisting it's not really racist because [insert lame-o excuse here], as they stupidly try to repackage her as non-racist. (The first sign of trouble should have been when Sotomayor called herself "wise".)
The Sotomayor nomination has gotten so controversial, the news media are calling it "controversial". Media outlets spent all last week insisting that Sotomayor would make a swell judge because she (unlike some stodgy white male) would decide cases relying on the emanations from the penumbras of her 'rich personal heritage' -- consisting of being divorced and childless, having a screwed-up childhood and loads of personal problems and hang-ups about white males.
Even the Kool-Aid impaired press now suspects that the mediocre Sotomayor was picked over more qualified candidates solely based on 'race' -- just like that obscure McCain v. Obama case was decided last November 4th. You might have heard of it.
Sensing a problem that one of Sotomayor's key appellate rulings is about to be overruled by the Supremes, the Los Angeles Times paused momentarily from its jabberwocky about her awesome background to note that if SCOTUS overrules her racist ruling, it "could fuel controversy" against her and give critics even more ammo (technically known as "facts").
In her now-famously balanced, even-handed ruling in Ricci v. DeStefano, Sotomayor and two other Second Circuit Court judges ruled that the city of New Haven's decision to discriminate against a group of 'white firefighters' because of race was in keeping with the Civil Rights Act, which says no employee may be discriminated against because of race. Suggesting the media are on the ball, the group of 18 "white firefighters" in the case consist of 17 whites and one wise Latino.
The firefighters who passed the test were denied promotion by city officials because they passed the test, in fairness to the losers who flunked because they didn't study. Astonishingly, only firefighters qualified for a promotion could pass the test, so the city concluded the test must be flawed. Or worse -- that the test they formulated was deliberately racist!
That the test didn't yield any qualified black candidates is the whole basis for the lunatic claim that the test was flawed. So, in a brilliant stroke, the results were disregarded out of fear that New Haven would be subjected to having qualified firefighters in senior positions. I have a dream of a city where firefighters will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their test scores for once.
Libbies claim Sotomayor was merely obeying another provision of the Civil Rights Act, which bars employers from using tests in hiring or promotions that have a "disparate impact" on racial minorities. The problem with that idiotic excuse is that the law allows it if there's a "business necessity," such as promoting qualified firefighters to supervisory gigs who can actually pass a basic test for supervisory gigs.
The Sotomayor standard of 'racial neutrality' consists of promoting unqualified firefighters because of race, that way fires won't be so hot anymore.
With La Razista Sotomayor, libbies have given up any attempt at hiding their lunatic devotion to race-preferences, gender-preferences and quotas, insisting that putting an unqualified hack judge on the high court because of her race and gender is what makes America great. Sotomayor humbly claims her decision-making process is inherently far superior to those of lumbering lower life forms called 'white male judges', one of whom recently laid into her ruling in the firefighters case, saying it "lacks a clear statement of either the claims raised by the plaintiffs or the issues on appeal. Indeed, the opinion contains no reference whatsoever to the constitutional claims at the core of this case, and a casual reader of the opinion could be excused for wondering whether a learning disability played at least as much of a role in this case as the alleged racial discrimination. This perfunctory disposition rests uneasily with the weighty issues presented by this appeal."
Oh, wait -- that was wise Latino Judge Jose Cabranes writing for the dissent in Ricci v. DeStefano! Sorry about that.
Anyway, that's...
My Two Cents
"JohnHuang2", a Latino
They lost me at “gets praise from the other side of the aisle”
Jeff Sessions in dummy.
If this is a strategy to keeps the wolves at bay until the hearings and then grill Sotomayor, fine.
We better see all eight GOP Senators on the Judiciary Committee come out against her with a broadside—pun intended—and vote en bloc not to move her name to nomination.
Then she will not be voted on.
It is time for some major payback to the slimy Dems after the vicious attacks on our nominees also.
That’s the bellwether—if the GOP doesn’t play hardball with her and the Dems, they are done as a party.
First line of Post #4 should have been”
“Jeff Sessions is no dummy.”
I hate when that happens.
“Even the Kool-Aid impaired press now suspects that the mediocre Sotomayor was picked over more qualified candidates solely based on ‘race’ — just like that obscure McCain v. Obama case was decided last November 4th. You might have heard of it.”
Definition of Race: A convenience most often utilized for Political gain by Leftist entities.
If all our politicians and judges were like Sessions we would be in good shape.
Listening to the radio in the middle of night and heard a quote from Leahy.
Something about the attacks on Dodo are the most vicious he has ever heard.
We have got to go after Leahy. More time attacking the demonrats and less time attacking our own if we want to derail this nominee.
Great post. I believe you are absolutely correct about the GOP. If they don’t start uniting against these corrupt communist thugs once and for all, then ALL is lost!! CO
The liberal media is so transparent and predictable. They throw praise on republicans who demonstrate yielding and complying with the left and the republicans lap it up like sweet cream while they chastise conservatives for fighting back. It worked so well for McCain last year. (sarc)
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