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The Supreme Court's Ricci decision

Four Supreme Court Justices agree with Sotomayor, including the one she is to replace.

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  • Monday, June 29, 2009 08:55 AM

    But it probably will not

    As for Sotomayor, the Court's 5-4 decision today ought to put an end to the attempt to use Ricci to depict her as being somehow out of the judicial mainstream and thus unfit for the Court.

    If you draw a small enough window around a distorted representation of what Sotomayor writes, you can always claim it is outside the mainstream, especially with the additional evidence that her name is pronounced with the accent on the last syllable.

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