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To: michael97123 who wrote (491469)	6/29/2009 10:37:27 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1573959

Lincoln had a real job, not a community agitator.

To: michael97123 who wrote (491469)	6/29/2009 10:43:37 AM
From: longnshort	3 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573959

Court rules for white firefighters over promotions By MARK SHERMAN The Associated Press Monday, June 29, 2009 10:27 AM WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court ruled Monday that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge. New Haven was wrong to scrap a promotion exam because no African-Americans and only two Hispanic firefighters were likely to be made lieutenants or captains based on the results, the court said Monday in a 5-4 decision. The city said that it had acted to avoid a lawsuit from minorities. The ruling could alter employment practices nationwide, potentially limiting the circumstances in which employers can be held liable for decisions when there is no evidence of intentional discrimination against minorities. "Fear of litigation alone cannot justify an employer's reliance on race to the detriment of individuals who passed the examinations and qualified for promotions," Justice Anthony Kennedy said in his opinion for the court. He was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. In dissent, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the white firefighters "understandably attract this court's sympathy. But they had no vested right to promotion. Nor have other persons received promotions in preference to them." Justices Stephen Breyer, David Souter and John Paul Stevens signed onto Ginsburg's dissent, which she read aloud in court Monday. Kennedy's opinion made only passing reference to the work of Sotomayor and the other two judges on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals who upheld a lower court ruling in favor of New Haven. But the appellate judges have been criticized for producing a cursory opinion that failed to deal with "indisputably complex and far from well-settled" questions, in the words of another appeals court judge, Sotomayor mentor Jose Cabranes. "This perfunctory disposition rests uneasily with the weighty issues presented by this appeal," Cabranes said, in a dissent from the full 2nd Circuit's decision not to hear the case.

To: michael97123 who wrote (491469)	6/29/2009 10:53:43 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573959

You say amateur president and use the term in a pejorative way. If obama is amateur president then what were bush and clinton? Perhaps bush was the improbable president. And clinton the dysfunctional one. And speaking of amateur what was Lincoln when he became president? Electing an inexperienced president has obviously turned out to be a huge mistake. But it could be tolerable had he not been given a liberal Congress who can get legislation through like this hideous Cap-and-Trade bill. There is a good chance the Senate will block it. But what if they can't? We will be stuck with a piece of legislation that is just atrocious by any reasonable measure. A big tax and spend, big regulation bill that does NOTHING. Saves 1% of CO2 emissions over 100 years. That gives every country a competitive advantage over us. The legislation is grossly incompetent in every respect. Yet, the country could well be stuck with it because we have a president who thinks he knows what's good for us, and a Congress that is a rubber stamp. If you're going to have an idiot elected as president, you don't need a rubber stamp Congress.

To: michael97123 who wrote (491469)	6/29/2009 11:08:12 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573959

Bush and Clinton had substantial political and executive experience in governing.....Obama has none.