Legal Commentary

Monday Afternoon Open Thread

By Big Tent Democrat

Bob Somerby wrote for rubes on Saturday about the Sotomayor hearings. Somerby wrote:

On Thursday morning, [Sen. Kyl] asked Sotomayor, again and again, to identify the precedents which compelled her decision in the Ricci case, or which would have compelled the full Second Circuit if it had addressed the matter. We’re not legal eagles here, and we’re willing to be corrected or further informed. . . . For ourselves, we don’t have a strong view on the Ricci case; we’d love to see better analysis. . . . Bottom line: Pseudo-liberals simply love to name-call southern whites. . . .

(Emphasis supplied.) Bob is writing for his rubes here. Funny how he could not find any "pseudo-liberal" analysis of Ricci. His research on the point was as good as the Media's on "Al Gore invented the Internet." Hey Bob! Here is just one analysis that could have answered your questions on Ricci. More on Somerby playing to his rubes tomorrow. This (PDF) might help Bob also.

This is an Open Thread.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on July 20, 2009 (boomark / email).