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High court overturns Sotomayor panel’s ruling in New Haven discrimination case

19 comments June 29th, 2009

 

 I doubt that THIS DECISION will negatively affect the chances for Senate confirmation of  Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to a seat on the Supreme Court.

 After all, the high court’s 5-4 split in this case does not support the notion that Sotomayor’s reading of the matter was outside the judicial mainstream.

 UPDATE: Lest anyone get the idea that this reversal of Sotomayor is a knock on her qualifications for the high court, it should be noted that Justice Samuel Alito, a favorite among conservatives, was reversed by the supremes at least four times when he was an appellate judge, as we see HERE.

UPDATE: Glenn Greenwald has a few INTERESTING POINTS to make about today’s court ruling, including his observation that “11 out of the 21 federal judges to rule on Ricci [as the case has moved through the courts] ruled as Sotomayor did.  It’s perfectly reasonable to argue that she ruled erroneously, but it’s definitively unreasonable to claim that her Ricci ruling places her on some sort of judicial fringe.”

Global-warming deniers envision vast conspiracy involving thousands of scientists

15 comments June 29th, 2009

 

 Paul Krugman accuses global-warming skeptics of “treason against the planet” at a time when the problem is becoming worse than previously anticipated:

To fully appreciate the irresponsibility and immorality of climate-change denial, you need to know about the grim turn taken by the latest climate research.

The fact is that the planet is changing faster than even pessimists expected: ice caps are shrinking, arid zones spreading, at a terrifying rate. And according to a number of recent studies, catastrophe — a rise in temperature so large as to be almost unthinkable — can no longer be considered a mere possibility. It is, instead, the most likely outcome if we continue along our present course.

 Read the whole thing HERE.