Among the wreckage inflicted on the Untied States of America by the Republican Party over the years since World War Two, add the Supreme Court.
The way is stands now, we have some under-qualified conservative Judges sitting on the bench of the highest court in the land... the branch of government that really separates the Unties States from other democracies in history.
I can't wait until Judge Sotomayor is sitting next to these white, small-dicked Republicans (and that includes Justice Thomas) and makes them sweat under those black robes.
"The Supreme Court handed a victory Monday to a group of white firefighters charging racial discrimination, while also giving some fodder to critics of President Barack Obama’s pending nominee for the high court, Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for a court split 5-4 along ideological lines, reversed an appeals court ruling Sotomayor joined last year that rejected a claim that the City of New Haven, Conn., discriminated against white firefighters by throwing out a promotional exam after all the African-American firefighters who took it scored too poorly to be promoted.
“Whatever the City’s ultimate aim — however well intentioned or benevolent it might have seemed — the City made its employment decision because of race. The City rejected the test results solely because the higher scoring candidates were white,” Kennedy wrote on behalf of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
Kennedy said that allowing the city’s conduct would establish “a de facto quota system” where test results could be discarded whenever a particular racial group didn’t achieve the average score."
Yeah... fellas... that was kind of the point. (see Justice Ginsburg dissent).
