Deserved or not, the biggest political thorn in Sonia Sotomayor’s side has been one Frank Ricci of New Haven, CT. Ricci is a firefighter who sued the city claiming reverse discrimination in 2003 after officials there discarded the results of a firefighter’s promotion test after the test was revealed to have a disparate impact on blacks and Hispanics.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=140816