By working up a slime campaign against the firefighter at the core of the case Sotomayor ruled incorrectly upon:
Supporters of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor are quietly targeting the Connecticut firefighter who’s at the center of Sotomayor’s most controversial ruling.
On the eve of Sotomayor’s Senate confirmation hearing, her advocates have been urging journalists to scrutinize what one called the “troubled and litigious work history” of firefighter Frank Ricci.
This is opposition research: a constant shadow on Capitol Hill.
“The whole business of getting Supreme Court nominees through the process has become bloodsport,” said Gary Rose, a government and politics professor at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn.
On Friday, citing in an e-mail “Frank Ricci’s troubled and litigious work history,” the liberal advocacy group People for the American Way drew reporters’ attention to Ricci’s past. Other advocates for Sotomayor have discreetly urged journalists to pursue similar story lines.
Ricci, as a person, bears no relevance to Sotomayor – but with her approval numbers cratering, there’s a chance that public opposition might derail her thus-far easy confirmation process. So, bring up the issue of the firefighter, make it look like he’s “after” Sotomayor and thus confuse the issue – it will no longer be a straight forward “Sotomayor denied an American his constitutional rights” but “a kook has it in for poor, little Sotomayor who is just trying to bring justice for all”. Its rather sick, enormously disgusting, and completely in line with normal, par-for-the-course liberalism. It also has the kicker of chilling the ardor of future possible litigants – the word will be out: cross a liberal judge, and it might cost you a lot.
Any of you liberals out there even within a country mile of starting to think about the cause you’ve signed on for?
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