Opinion Pieces: WSJ On "Firefighter Justice" And George Will On The "Deeply Depressing" Fact That That The Firefighters "Won Narrowly -- 5 to 4"

The Wall Street Journal writes that "the Supreme Court closed an otherwise unremarkable term on a high note yesterday, rejecting the notion that one kind of racial bias can be remedied by another. On the last day of opinions before the Court is potentially joined by Judge Sonia Sotomayor, the Justices overturned one of her most closely scrutinized cases on workplace discrimination. The effect was to take an important step away from the practice of divvying up jobs by race." To read the full editorial visit http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124631901145470941.html.

George Will has a very important opinion piece worth reading where he writes that although "New Haven's firefighters deservedly won in the Supreme Court, it is deeply depressing that they won narrowly -- 5 to 4. The egregious behavior by that city's government, in a context of racial rabble-rousing, did not seem legally suspect to even one of the court's four liberals, whose harmony seemed to reflect result-oriented rather than law-driven reasoning." To read the full Washington Post op-ed visit http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/29/AR2009062903382.html.
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