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In a 5-4 decision on Monday the nation\u2019s highest court ruled in favor of a group of white firefighters who claimed they had been unfairly denied promotions. The city of New Haven, CT threw out an exam taken by the firefighters after it was leaned that no African Americans and only two Latinos passed it. In the Ricci v. DeStefano case, the group of white firefighters calling themselves \u201cthe New Haven 20\u201d claimed that the city unfairly discriminated against them by voiding the test and thereby denying them promotions. A lower court ruled against the New Haven 20 \u2013 that ruling was upheld by Federal appellate Judge Sonia Sotomayor. According to Monday\u2019s Supreme Court ruling, an employer is liable for unequal impacts only if they result from non-job-related criteria or if the employer could have used a method that had more equitable impacts. Those who supported Sotomayor\u2019s verdict worry that the ruling will impede fairness and diversity in employment all across the nation. Meanwhile, the verdict also impacts the recent nomination of Judge Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. Sotomayor, whose Senate confirmation hearings begin July 13th, has already faced vocal opposition from right wing commentators like Rush Limbaugh who accused her of being a \u201creverse racist\u201d based on her ruling in this case. The Supreme Court decision has fueled that criticism. Some conservative groups like Judicial Watch have reiterated the \u201creverse racism\u201d accusations and used the verdict to argue that she is an \u201cactivist judge.\u201d <\/p>\n
GUESTS: Marge Baker, Executive Vice President of People for the American Way, Rev. Timothy McDonald, Chair of African American Ministers in Action and Pastor of First Iconium Baptist Church in Atlanta<\/em><\/p>\n For more information, visit www.aamia.org<\/a>, and www.pfaw.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" | the entire program In a 5-4 decision on Monday the nation\u2019s highest court ruled in favor of a group of white firefighters who claimed they had been unfairly denied promotions. The city of New Haven, CT threw out an exam taken by the firefighters after it was leaned that no African Americans and only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}