New Haven Firefighters To Testify At Sotomayor's Hearing

The Boston Globe reports that "Republicans announced yesterday that they plan to call a white firefighter, whose reverse discrimination claim was rejected by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, to testify against her, hinting that they will try to make racial bias a central theme of the confirmation hearings that open Monday. Firefighter Frank Ricci of New Haven, the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging his city’s decision to scrap the results of a promotion test because too few minorities scored highly enough to qualify, was one of 14 witnesses on the GOP list. Sotomayor, who would be the first Hispanic on the high court, was part of an appellate court panel that rejected Ricci’s claim. The Supreme Court reversed the ruling last week.
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