Republicans announced Thursday that they plan to call a white firefighter to testify against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor during her Senate confirmation hearings that open Monday.I have seen nothing to indicate that the 2nd Circuits decision in the Ricci case was not correct in accordance with the then-existing Supreme Court precedent. Lower courts are bound to decide cases based on the guidance of the Supreme Court. If the Supremes later reverse themselves, they are entitled to do that, but no lower court is entitled to decide a case if their decision would contradict what the Supreme Court has previously held.
For Republicans to claim otherwise is nothing more than cynical political grandstanding.
Cynical public grandstanding? Republicans? You don't say!
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I know, I know, but still, it deserved to be pointed out.
ReplyDeleteBusiness as usual, nothing to see, please move along...
ReplyDeleteThis funny. I just posted this five minutes ago over at Out Of The Cornfield.
ReplyDeleteThe first rule of law is blindness, deafness and speechlessness. We have many judges violating one or all of these. You know it is funny that (R)'s rail against legislating from the bench yet when it goes their way they do not see the danger in the precedents it sets. In the Ricci case Sotomayer ruled against them on precedent and the SCOTUS over ruled the previous decision (precedent) the circuit court was mandated to use in it's decision. You won't see that in print anywhere but will come out in her confirmation hearings.