The desire of those on the Left to personally destroy their political opponents is never satiated.
And any comparison to the attacks on Anita Hill are inapt. Hill leveled personal charges against Clarence Thomas that were outside his duties as a judge. It was a she-said, he-said, and obviously in a situation like that, the characters of the individuals involved are important for gauging the truthfulness of the accusations.
But Ricci’s entire experience with Sottomayor has been in the courtroom. He busted his butt, he did well on his test, but then he was denied justice so he appealed. And when he appealed, instead of finding an appeals court panel that was open-minded and willing to apply the law, he found a couple of ideologues, one of whom was Sonia Sottomayor, who saw in his case not a man fighting for justice, but an opportunity to turn their policy preferences into binding precedent.
Ricci’s character has nothing to do with that story. Even evil men – and I’ve no reason to believe that Ricci is an evil man – should be able to go to our courts and receive a fair application of the law. The only relevant issue is Sottomayor’s scandalously injudicious handling of the case. Attempts to make this about anything in Ricci’s past reveal nothing besides the weakness of the Sottomayor nomination. The only people who can defend her are some people who say – because they know, because there’s never any doubt about how Sottomayor will decide a case – that she’ll vote their way.
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