Sports fans and union members may have plenty to debate with President Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court.
As a self-proclaimed Yankees fan, she starts with two strikes against her.
But, given that her decision that ended the 1994-95 strike, a brush-back may not be in order.
Sotomayor quickly rejected the arguments of baseball owners after players offered to end the strike in April 1995 and clear the field of replacement players. The owners held out for punitive new work rules that were rejected by the National Labor Relations Board, including an end to anti-collusion rules.
"This strike has placed the entire concept of collective bargaining on trial," she said at the time.
Early reports on Sotomayor say, that like retiring Justice David Souter, she's hard to predict. On sports and unions, that appears to be true.
Five years after siding with baseball players, she rejected
arguments by the NFL Players Association, which tried to block
"That's what unions do every day -- protect people in the union from those not in the union," she said.
Her wisdom, no doubt, will be debated, especially if she
keeps rooting for the Yankees. But try finding anyone who thinks Clarett helped
himself by leaving
-- Jim Sweeney
In 2001 Sotomayor said that "a female Hispanic judge would often reach a better decision than a white male judge." Sonomayor's entitled to her racist opinion, and as a former member of "La Raza" she is by definition a racist. However, trying to avoid this issue with cutesy talk about baseball is even below the usual left wing deflections and deceptions severed up on on these pages.