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WASHINGTON -- Although New Haven's firefighters deservedly won in the Supreme Court, it is deeply depressing that they won narrowly -- 5-4. 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.
The undisputed facts are that in 2003 the city gave promotion exams to 118 firemen, 27 of them black. The tests were prepared by a firm specializing in employment exams and were validated, as federal law...
On Race, the Slog Goes On
the National Grand Wizer conservative?
If the supreme libs (and the rest of the 'judiciary' generally) would try either a little honesty, explicitly admitting their continued 'judicial' politicking and "'legislation' by judicial fiat", or simply start adhering to God's Morality, traditional moral stds., you wouldn't see these ongoing asinine and irrational 5-4 splits on matters of such great import. But I guess it'll continue as long as people are dumb enough to put up with it, which has been an awful long time now.
Law isn't math pretty obviously, and legitimate differences of opinion will inevitably occur. But the continuing and nauseating spate of opinion (which is...