So, what do we know about our latest SCOTUS nominee? I don't have much to add to the e-mail that Seana circulated. We know she'd be the Court's first Latino, it's third woman, and that the Repugs are trying to label her as an intellectual lightweight even though she graduated from Princeton summa cum laude and was an editor on the prestigious Yale Law Review.
From what I've read, she's pretty direct in her opinions, generally writing about law and precedent rather than lofty ideals. However, we'll likely only hear about one of her decisions: Ricci v. DeStefano, in which she and her colleagues upheld a decision to invalidate a promotion exam on which minority firefighters scored disproportionately low. That's the one Limbaugh's pointing to when he calls her a "reverse racist." It could also be overturned by the SCOTUS soon, which would be awkward (granted, Alito also had a big lower court decision overturned). Anyhow, Slate's Emily Bazelon has an interesting analysis of the Ricci case.
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