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N.Y. Firefighter Discrimination Ruling Has Echoes of New Haven Case
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyA story about firefighters who may have been discriminated against slipped under the radar this week. In this case, no one named Ricci was involved. A federal judge in Brooklyn ruled Wednesday that New York City used tests that had little relation to firefighting, and that discriminated against black and Hispanic job applicants. A lawsuit had been brought by the Justice Department in 2007 after a complaint by the Vulcan Society, an association of black firefighters. In some ways, this case mirrors the lawsuit brought by white and Hispanic firefighters in New Haven, Conn., after a ...
Ante Up: The Supreme Court Poker Tournament
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyBonnie compares the back and forth between Sonia Sotomayor and her Senate questioners to the airy give-and-take of a Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire dance. But it's not ballroom dance -- or musicals like those mentioned by Melinda and Mary -- that I've been thinking about; it's poker. Observe the senators as they shuffle their cards -- some choosing easy friendliness and others taking a more aggressive line -- as they try to get Sotomayor to reveal exactly what she's holding. Can Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) raise the stakes with a mere mention of firefighter Frank Ricci, a central figure in a ...
Democrats Walk a Fine Line on Ricci Attacks
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyAwhile back, I noted that the only chance Republicans had of stopping Sonia Sotomayor was to juxtapose her story next to that of Frank Ricci. By now, you know Ricci was at the center of a reverse discrimination lawsuit brought by 20 firefighters in New Haven, Conn. Ricci is also dyslexic -- and spent more than $1,000 on books and for payment to a friend who recorded the books for him -- to study for a promotions test. Sotomayor was a member of an appeals court panel that upheld a lower court's judgment in favor of the city, which had thrown out results of a civil-service test when no blacks ...
Michael Bloomberg, Frank Ricci to Testify at Sotomayor Hearings
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyWe have the witness list for the Sonia Sotomayor hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee, and a few names will ring a bell with people. Testifying for the majority, and presumably providing a favorable view of the judge, will be New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, former Major League Baseball pitcher David Cone, Louis Freeh, former Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Congressman Jose Serrano and Rep. Nydia Velázquez, Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.Testifying for the minority, meaning they'll give information that Republicans want public, will be Frank Ricci, ...
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