Remember the Ricci v. DiStefano case in New Haven? The test scores of white and Hispanic firefighters seeking to become sergeants were thrown out by the city after not enough blacks passed. The firefighters sued and Sonia Sotomayor, then a District Court judge and wise Latina, ruled in favor of New Haven. The Supreme Court disagreed and overturned her defense of discrimination.
The controversy that followed almost ruined Sotomayor's chances of sitting on the Supreme Court. You'd think the Justice Department would get the message that these so-called "disparate impact" cases, usually brought against police and fire departments, are a bad idea. Instead the nutty Thomas Perez, who heads up the DOJ's Civil Rights Division, gave a speech last week downplaying the Ricci case. He also bragged about lawsuits filed against a Department of Corrections in Massachusetts and a sheriff's office in Oklahoma, among others. The offense of all these defendants is that they were judging others based on their merit rather than their sex or skin color.
The Oklahoma case is particularly hilarious. The Sheriff of Bryan County was reassigning pregnant female confinement officers to desk duty while they were pregnant. The Justice Department hit them with a discrimination rap. Now, the Bryan County sheriff's office has to provide mandatory training against "pregnancy discrimination."
Welcome to BHO's America, where "diversity" is more important than law enforcement keeping us safe, and the lunatics have taken over the asylum.
