Comments on: BREAKING: SCOTUS Reverses Ricci In 5-4 Decision

By: myiq2xu

myiq2xu — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:01:03 +0000

Some people don’t let ignorance get in the way of expressing their opinions.

By: BargainCountertenor

BargainCountertenor — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:49:03 +0000

I’m sorry for dirtying up your thread. I won’t feed the trolls anymore.

By: redfish

redfish — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:58:52 +0000

I think we have rehashed the good democrat bad democrat thing enough. Suffice it to say you should give Obama a chance. Five months does not a Presidency make, one should be patient. MLK was patient on civil rights. Obama deserves that same respect.

By: redfish

redfish — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:56:20 +0000

I appreciate your intellect and class. Well done.

By: Christy Hardin Smith

Christy Hardin Smith — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:48:50 +0000

Jeebus, I walk away from the blog for a while to spend time with The Peanut and I miss a whole thing in the thread.

Two things, gang: (1) Let’s try to play nice with one another, shall we? Even when I’m not around, I’d appreciate keeping the name-calling and whatnot to a minimum so I don’t have to come back in and do clean-up in my spare time.

(2) This case appears to have promulgated an entirely new standard, based on all of my reading on it this afternoon. Which means that the 2nd Cir. opinion may very well have closely followed it’s prior precedent, and that a new standard as enunciated by Kennedy’s majority opinion will make that precedent null and void going forward, but it doesn’t necessarily mean it was incorrectly decided previously.

It’s a subtle difference, but that’s how laws get changed through the years, so…it just remains to be seen what this means overall in the bigger labor picture. And I’m going to have to leave it to labor experts to hash that out, I’m afraid.

By: esseff44

esseff44 — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:08:23 +0000

I think the ’sympathy’ remark was a dig at Ginsberg’s remarks in her dissent where she sympathizes but argues against them.

By: KayInMaine

KayInMaine — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:03:10 +0000

You are such a bullshit artist. Go back to your cave where you belong (which is under the front porch of the RNC in case you forgot). Thanks.

By: KayInMaine

KayInMaine — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:00:14 +0000

Just remember! Only whites pass tests and we are fabulous on the oral part of any test! All minorities are not! /s

The slippery slope has begun! Lots of victimized whites will be lining up now to sue. And we thought tort cases were extreme in numbers and purpose! Nope. Not anymore!

By: esseff44

esseff44 — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:54:15 +0000

One of the requirements for the promotion was a certian number of years in a lower position. We can assume that everyone who took the test met those minimum qualifications. In hiring, you can’t make that assumption. In that respect, it is different.

By: esseff44

esseff44 — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:44:53 +0000

No, they smacked down the city officials for claiming something that the evidence did not support. The SCOTUS went back to the record which was overlooked or ignored by the district judge and the 2nd Circuit panel. It was not ignored by the Second Circuit judges who felt a need for clearer guidelines when the usual plaintiff and defendant positions were reversed.