The Supreme Court ruled this morning that firefighters in the controversial court case about reverse racism were unfairly denied promotions because of their race. The judgment reversed Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s ruling that race wasn’t a factor, according to MSNBC.

New Haven was wrong to scrap a promotion exam because no African-Americans and only two Hispanic firefighters were likely to be made lieutenants or captains based on the results, the [Supreme] court said Monday in a 5-4 decision. The city said that it had acted to avoid a lawsuit from minorities.

“Fear of litigation alone cannot justify an employer’s reliance on…

The case of a school strip-searching a 13-year-old girl after getting a tip she had prescription-strength ibuprofen on her wound up before the Supreme Court on Tuesday.

Schools have the right, and the duty, to make themselves safe. We send our children there for seven or eight hours a day, roughly 180 days a year. Some schools use metal detectors; some use drug-sniffing dogs. Many, if not most, have students sign ‘contracts’ that if they participate in extra-curricular activities, they are held to a certain standard of conduct. At least, that’s the case at the school my teenagers attend.

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People have a right to own guns, plain and simple, according to a majority of Supreme Court justices on Tuesday. Still, the justices are less clear about whether the District of Columbia’s ban on handguns should remain.

Arguments on D.C.’s gun ban could bring the high court’s first interpretation of the Second Amendment since it was ratified 216 years ago.

According to today’s story:

The central question before the court on Tuesday was whether the right to keep and bear arms applies to individuals or only to states and militias. At issue was the constitutionality of the ban on handguns in Washington, D.C….