Showing posts with label William Kristol. Show all posts
Showing posts with label William Kristol. Show all posts

Friday, June 5, 2009

Quote du jour

So we will have an unusual moment in the Sotomayor confirmation process--one that will stand out from the customary small-bore senatorial back-and-forth during judicial confirmations. We'll have a high-profile Supreme Court ruling highlighting a very questionable judicial decision by the president's nominee. Most Court observers expect the judgment in which Sotomayor joined to be reversed. But even if it isn't, there will be a closely observed decision by a probably closely divided Supreme Court that will bring home the importance of the Sotomayor nomination for jurisprudence in this area. The public will have occasion to see how a nominee, herself picked for identity-politics reasons, was unempathetic, one might say, and unjust to the victims of identity politics, the firefighters of New Haven who were denied promotions.

-William Kristol