Today's topic is the Supreme Court's decision Monday in Ricci vs DeStefano, where -- in a 5 to 4 decision -- the justices said the New Haven Fire Department acted improperly in tossing out a promotion exam because no African-Americans scored high enough to earn promotions.
The conservatives on the court, having lectured us about the evils of "judicial activism," indulged in it here.
Judging from my mail, passions run high out there on affirmative action and plenty of people think that whites are being systematically discriminated against. Not me.
Navarrette's column about this subject is posted below for those interested in reading it
For me, the fact that New Haven has a history of promoting whites torpedoes the idea that white firefighters were denied promotions because they're white.
That's the point. The term is typically applied to decisions we don't agree with. If we agree with the outcome, it's just a good sound decision. If not, it's judicial activism.