re: #361 Jetpilot1101

The stat that is being floated is that 80% of her decisions have been overturned. Not the greatest track record if you ask me but I’d like to reserve judgment on her until I do a bit more research on my own.

I hear you Jet, but I also know that it was a conservative court. I’ve heard the 80% number floated. I would like to see who the dissenting votes and did it cross ideologies.

Cases like this hold water.

The most controversial case in which Sotomayor participated is Ricci v. DeStefano, the explosive case involving affirmative action in the New Haven fire department, which is now being reviewed by the Supreme Court. A panel including Sotomayor ruled against the firefighters in a perfunctory unpublished opinion. This provoked Judge Cabranes, a fellow Clinton appointee, to object to the panel’s opinion that contained “no reference whatsoever to the constitutional issues at the core of this case.” (The extent of Sotomayor’s involvement in the opinion itself is not publicly known.)