Knee-Jerk Finger-Pointing on Race Spreads to the Supreme Court

John Hames shared with you:   Knee-Jerk Finger-Pointing on Race Spreads to the Supreme Court National Review - Progressives' Knee-Jerk Finger-Pointing on Race Spreads to the Supreme Court Now we know: A liberal Supreme Court justice will tell another liberal Supreme Court justice to his face, with the whole country watching her read her dissent from the bench, that he doesn't "understand about the reality of race in America" if she disagrees with his decision. To bring you up to speed, the Supreme Court ruled, 6-2, that a lower court did not have the authority to nullify a 2006 referendum — backed by 58 percent of voters —that bars publicly funded colleges from granting "preferential treatment to any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin." Depending upon your point of view, Sotomayor offered an impassioned dissent and/or went ballistic, accusing her colleagues of ignoring racism: Available on the App Store.

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