Sotomayor: More Republican Desperation

The stench of desperation and pandering to the base:

Republicans plan to call a white firefighter whose reverse discrimination claim was rejected by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor to testify against her.

New Haven, Conn. firefighter Frank Ricci brought a lawsuit challenging his city's decision to scrap the results of a promotion test because too few minorities scored highly enough to qualify. He's one of 14 witnesses Republicans will call during Senate hearings on Sotomayor's confirmation that open Monday.

Sotomayor was part of an appellate court panel that rejected Ricci's claim. The Supreme Court reversed the ruling last week.

I hope the Democrats on the committee hammer him with legal questions.

And something that should be noted (again) about that the reversal by the Supreme Court:

Although "Sotomayor Reversed" was a frequent headline on the posts that spread quickly across the Web, it was actually the Supreme Court itself that shifted course.

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