So How Did Sotomayor Rule in Race-Related Cases?

These are the sort of facts needed to judge her. Now Republicans are looking awfully stupid for ranting about her being “racist.” They should have been attacking her for being liberal from day one. A charge I think the public has little sympathy for, but it’s better than the pathetic spectacle of the party of rich white men falsely yelling racism.

What I find sad is they cry racism and they are the one employing a double standard. It’s ok for Justice Alito and Scalia to say something but heavens, a Latina said it, she’s racist! Please..
Posted by: Try the truth
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What are you talking about? Are you saying that Alito and Scalia have made racist statements?

“I decided that I would stop and write an interim report once I got through her 50 most recent race-related cases other than Ricci…”
From Charles Krauthammer’s The case: Sotomayor vs. Ricci-
Sonia Sotomayor has a classic American story. So does Frank Ricci.
Ricci is a New Haven firefighter stationed seven blocks from where Sotomayor went to law school (Yale). Raised in blue-collar Wallingford, Conn., Ricci struggled as a C and D student in public schools ill-prepared to address his serious learning disabilities. Nonetheless he persevered, becoming a junior firefighter and Connecticut’s youngest certified EMT.
After studying fire science at a community college, he became a New Haven “truckie,” the guy who puts up ladders and breaks holes in burning buildings. When his department announced exams for promotions, he spent $1,000 on books, quit his second job so he could study eight to 13 hours a day, and, because of his dyslexia, hired someone to read him the material.
He placed sixth on the lieutenant’s exam, which qualified him for promotion. Except that the exams were thrown out by the city, and all promotions denied, because no blacks had scored high enough to be promoted.
Ricci (with 19 others) sued.
That’s where these two American stories intersect. Sotomayor was a member of the three-member Circuit Court panel that upheld the dismissal of his case, thus denying Ricci his promotion.

Skittles:So you want to cherry pick a single case, carefully parse what you give out about it, and judge her solely on that? I never knew “conservatives” were so vehmently in favor of the federal government stepping in and using Title VII powers to force the compliance of local authorities (Sotomayor joined with the majority in deciding the locals could be left to do their jobs in this case).
And there is still the chance of tragic Ricci getting his promotion – ALL the exams were thrown out. If he did well on the orals, he is still firmly in line for an eventual promotion. And that “all promotions denied” line is a bit of dramatic exageration, to be expected from the right wing at this point – no specific promotion was up for grabs, it was setting the list from which promotions would be awarded in the future.

Sotomayor was a member of the three-member Circuit Court panel that upheld the dismissal of his case, thus denying Ricci his promotion.
Posted by: Skittles
not being a lawyer, and trying to understand this myself what I heard a few legal experts say: that Sotomayor ‘judged’ that the city was not breaking the established current law applicable to the case…….. so she wasn’t deciding anything on race and she wasn’t being ‘activist’, she did what everyone says a judge should do, uphold the current law.

Hmmmmmm, I confused. Based on the “concerns” Obama had on Justices Roberts and Alito, so much so he voted to filibuster Alito and against confirmation on both, it seems like this record of Ms. Sotomayor would be especially troublesome him.

How so? Because of Obama’s statement on why he voted against Roberts:
In a Senate speech, Obama said the decision to vote against Roberts “was not an easy one for me to make.” He said he was impressed with Roberts when the two met, but found that he seemed to side with “those who were dismissive of efforts to eradicate the remnants of racial discrimination in our political process.” He added that Roberts “seemed dismissive of the concerns that it’s harder making it in this world and in this economy when you’re a woman rather than a man.”
And then this on Alito:
“I have no doubt that Judge Alito has the training and qualifications necessary to serve,” Obama said in a January 2006 speech in the Senate chamber. But he said he was “deeply troubled” because Alito as a federal judge “consistently sides on behalf of the powerful against the powerless; on behalf of a strong government or corporation against upholding American’s individual rights.”
As a presidential candidate, Obama continued to stress the plight of people who lacked advantages when dealing with powerful people and institutions.
In November 2007, he said the Supreme Court should “protect people who may be vulnerable in the political process: the outsider, the minority, those who are vulnerable, those who don’t have a lot of clout.”