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President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, announced today she may sue her potential future colleagues for racial bias over yesterday’s 5-4 ruling that overturned her own decision in the New Haven fire fighters discrimination lawsuit.
The Supreme Court ruled in Ricci v. DeStefano Monday that an employer could not throw out the results of a promotion exam simply for fear of a lawsuit from racial minorities who fared poorly on the test.
Sotomayor accused the high court’s “Constitutional literalists” of bias and an “abject lack of wisdom” in tossing out the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ prior ruling in the case which she joined.
“In their majority ruling in Ricci, Justices Roberts, Alito, Kennedy, Scalia and Thomas failed to take into account the cultural forces exerted on a Latina appeals court judge,” said Sotomayor. “Historical, entrenched institutional prejudice can cause a person, even a wise Latina, to make emotional decisions which, while consistent with the cultural norms of the aggrieved ethnic group, might not comport entirely with the specific language of the Constitution — a document of questionable practical value due to the Anglo-Saxon cultural bias of its authors.”
Sotomayor said she hopes the threat of a lawsuit will be enough to persuade the Supreme Court to reverse its ruling.
“The court’s rejection of my opinion proves, ipso facto, the kind of bias that President Obama will eliminate by placing me on the court,” she said. “The all-male, non-Latino court majority lacks the sympathy to set aside the cold rationality of the Constitution for the good of the people.”
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