The empty suit living in the White House is attempting to pawn off a racist bigot with limited legal skills as our next United States Supreme Court Justice.
At the end of the day, I wouldn't let either the clueless idiot running the show OR his token hispanic run an elevator for me... but that is for another post. This post is to point out yet another in the series of leftist political character assassinations against someone they disagree with (Joe the Plumber immediately comes to mind) here, one of the lead plaintiffs that Sotomayer practiced her peculiar brand of bigotry against.
Her bigotry precludes her from holding any position of authority anywhere, let along a supreme court justice position; and in this case, this firefighter, a victim of institutional fear and racism who's case was tossed like last week's newspaper by this "latina women are wiser than white men" bigot will be testifying at Sotomayer's "go-thru-the-motions" confirmation.
The article speaks for itself, as does this, yet another in the long list of scummy efforts by the left to silence opposition speak for itself.
2010 can't get here soon enough for me.
Posted on Friday, July 10, 2009
Sotomayor backers urge reporters to probe New Haven firefighter
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By Michael Doyle and David Lightman McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — Supporters of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor are quietly targeting the Connecticut firefighter who's at the center of Sotomayor's most controversial ruling.
On the eve of Sotomayor's Senate confirmation hearing, her advocates have been urging journalists to scrutinize what one called the "troubled and litigious work history" of firefighter Frank Ricci.
This is opposition research: a constant shadow on Capitol Hill.
"The whole business of getting Supreme Court nominees through the process has become bloodsport," said Gary Rose, a government and politics professor at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn.
On Friday, citing in an e-mail "Frank Ricci's troubled and litigious work history," the liberal advocacy group People for the American Way drew reporters' attention to Ricci's past. Other advocates for Sotomayor have discreetly urged journalists to pursue similar story lines.
Specifically, the advocates have zeroed in on an earlier 1995 lawsuit Ricci filed claiming the city of New Haven discriminated against him because he's dyslexic. The advocates cite other Hartford Courant stories from the same era recounting how Ricci was fired by a fire department in Middletown, Conn., allegedly, Ricci said at the time, because of safety concerns he raised.
The Middletown-area fire department was subsequently fined for safety violations, but the Connecticut Department of Labor dismissed Ricci's retaliation complaint.
No People for the American Way officials could be reached Friday to speak on the record about the press campaign.
"To go after so sympathetic a plaintiff as Frank Ricci . . . is a new low in the politics of personal destruction," said Roger Pilon, the director of the libertarian Cato Institute's Center for Constitutional Studies. "If they were smart, they'd keep a low profile."
Ricci, though, has his own advocates, including conservative commentators such as CNN's Lou Dobbs and Fox's Sean Hannity.
Nor is he the only Supreme Court confirmation witness to receive sharp elbows. In 1991, for instance, then-Senate Minority Leader Alan Simpson of Wyoming warned that witness Anita Hill would be "injured and destroyed and belittled and hounded and harassed" if she testified against nominee Clarence Thomas. Hill was preparing to testify that she'd been sexually harassed by Thomas.
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