Comments on: Running with Ricci: A preview of the GOP’s anti-affirmative action witnesses

By: Souters Seat X: tegen de positieve discriminatie

Souters Seat X: tegen de positieve discriminatie — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:12:41 +0000

[...] meer nog lijkt het vraagstuk van de positieve discriminatie centraal te gaan staan. Althans, dat kan volgen uit de getuigen die de Republikeinen hebben opgeroepen. Opvallend is daarbij de oproeping van [...]

By: Michael Roston - Newsbroke - Poll: And we’re off — Will Sonia Sotomayor have a tough hearing? - True/Slant

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:34:37 +0000

[...] to key moments in the hearing, check out out first slide soon. Already on Friday, we had a preview from Kate Klonick here at True/Slant who blogged about the affirmative action critics who will be called as witnesses [...]

By: rockyinlaw

rockyinlaw — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:25:54 +0000

It is since the McCain campaign and the acceptance (if not outright encouragement) of shouts such as “Kill him!” from their crowds that I’ve noticed this brazen disregard for a keystone in U.S. policy for embracing diversity in all the pubic areas of our lives. I understand that white (European American) supremacists are disgruntled, so unused to finding themselves actually competing with “minorities.” But their cries of racism are silly. At least that is what I thought at first. Now I’m wondering if their callous argument of “racism” against what is right (moral) will prove to be caustic. They have decided to use the law to wield their pointy white hoods against the greater good. It’s sophistry. And no one yet seems to know what to do about it.

By: Afi Scruggs

Afi Scruggs — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:01:53 +0000

This is quite an informative article. I’d planned to follow the confirmation hearings, but now I’ll be a more educated observer.

By: Matthew Yglesias » Conservatives Prepping for Race War Against Sotomayor

Matthew Yglesias » Conservatives Prepping for Race War Against Sotomayor — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:42:49 +0000

[...] of empathy of his situation. But Kate Klonick writes that beyond Ricci there’s going to be lots more affirmative action at the hearing: In 2005, when Justices Samuel Alito and John Roberts were confirmed by the Senate, [...]