This Human Events article profiles 7 cases where rulings by Judge Sotomayor came before the Supreme Court. National Journal legal affairs columnist Stuart Taylor demolishes the argument that Judge Sotomayor's ruling in the New Haven Firefighters case was not quota-based.
I took a good look at one case the Human Events article discusses, as it seems to me especially important, involving the extent of federal regulatory power over industry. The case Entergy Corp. v. Riverkeeper, Inc. (decided April 1, 2009), involved an Environmental Protection AGency (EPA) order apply cost-benefit calculus to pollution control regulation, overturning a ruling by Judge Sotomayor's appeals court panel entitling the EPA to ignore cost-benefit and demand instead "best available technology"; this is precisely the kind of regulation we can expect from the militant Greens (like White House czar Carol Browner, who headed a radical EPA under President Clinton).
A New York Times article profiles Sonia's national security cases--not reassuring.
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