Posted on 05/26/2009 9:40:55 AM PDT by VirginiaConstitutionalist
Libertarians blast Sotomayor pick
Obama Court nominee ruled government should discriminate based on race
WASHINGTON -- America’s third largest party Tuesday criticized President Barack Obama’s nomination of federal appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, citing past rulings that public employers should discriminate in hiring based on race.
“While Judge Sotomayor deserves a fair and impartial hearing, Supreme Court justices should be nominated for their thorough knowledge of and adherence to the Constitution and the rule of law,” said William Redpath, Libertarian National Committee Chairman.
“By nominating Sonia Sotomayor, Barack Obama has made it clear he prefers an activist for his personal causes over a rational interpreter of law,” said Redpath.
According to Cato Institute Vice President for Legal Affairs Roger Pilon, Sotomayor is “the most radical of all the frequently mentioned candidates before him.”
Sotomayor is best known for the Ricci v. DeStafano case, in which the New Haven, Conn. fire department decided it didn’t like the results of an officers promotion exam in which whites and Hispanic firefighters outperformed black firefighters. The city threw out the results of the exam, denying several firefighters promotions solely because of their race. The firefighters sued the city, claiming racial discrimination under Title VVI of the Civil Rights Act and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The Cato Institute, Reason Foundation and the Individual Rights Foundations filed briefs on behalf of the firefighters, citing the absurdity of allowing public employers to throw out the results of valid, race-neutral exams that produce racial disparity because the racial disparity produced wasn’t politically correct. The firefighters and the libertarian foundations filing briefs argued that public employment practices should be color-blind.
Sotomayor disagreed, ruling the city has a right to discriminate against white and Hispanic public employees to construct a politically correct racial mix in hiring, even if it goes against the results of a racially-neutral competency exam.
The case is now before the Supreme Court. Sotomayor has had her rulings thrown out by the court a troubling four times. In three of those cases, the Court ruled Sotomayor had incorrectly interpreted the law.
“It is troubling that Obama, who won the highest elected office in the world without racial preferences, would nominate someone who openly admits the government should racially discriminate against its own citizens to serve the needs of political correctness,” said Redpath.
“Libertarians believe that, while the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of association allows private parties to hire whomever they please, government has no right to discriminate. Public employers should treat all citizens of all colors, races and ethnicities with equal respect and value and Sotomayor’s radical rulings are a jarring departure from that principle.”
For more information on this issue, or to arrange an interview with the Libertarian Party, please call Director of Communications Donny Ferguson at 703-200-3669 or 202-333-0008, x. 225, or email Donny.Ferguson@lp.org.
The Libertarian Party is America's third-largest political party, founded in 1971 as an alternative to the two main political parties. You can find more information on the Libertarian Party by visiting http://www.LP.org. The Libertarian Party proudly stands for smaller government, lower taxes and more freedom.
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WAKE UP AMERICA!.....WE ARE IN DEEP SHIT! THIS WOMAN IS AS RADICAL AS THEY COME!
Sonia Sotomayor—HolyO’s Harriet Miers!! LOL!
I figure this will last until Friday, then she’ll ‘voluntarily’ withdraw her name from consideration due to ‘family obligations’—thus handing HolyO his first defeat in nominating a SCOTUS justice, LOL!!
Total meltdown by all parties involved in 3...2...1...
She is on tape; she is toast.
Conservatives better be doing the same damn thing. This B*tch is a dangerous radical nutcase.
Don’t you know by now obama can do whatever he wants?
How come?
read later.
'Health concerns' would be more likely - as a longterm diabetic, that's a real issue.
The liberals line of crap is that the Constitution is a fluid document, thus there is really nothing to adhere to. It says whatever you think it should.
This isn't nearly as bad as we could have got.
She issued the order allowing the Wall Street Journal to publish Vince Foster’s suicide note. She also has diabetes, so she won’t outlive Ginsburg.
So if what you say is accurate , that is the proof they needed to prove she is a lesbian . Looks like they win this round guys .
OT, but both the Libertarian Party and the Constitution Party claim to be the third largest political party in the U.S. Who is telling the truth, and what exactly are they going by to get to their claim of being the third largest political party in the U.S.?
There are at least 51 members of the senate who agree with her. I see an obligatory couple days of huffing and puffing by the so-called “conservative Republicans” in the senate and, then, they will head for the tall grass and capitulate as Obama expects them to do.
Imagine that......nominating someone that's actually qualified.
I predict she will destroy herself on her own.
Better an “empty skirt” like this than a leading liberal intellectual force that might be able to persuade Kennedy to join the dark side of the force.
Glenn Beck will have a field day with this one!
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