Senator John Cornyn has a list of twenty questions for Judge Sotomayor. Only three to them are about the subjects that Sotomayor is most vulnerable on:

• Question 8: Does Judge Sotomayor believe that the firefighters’ claims in Ricci v. DeStefano are routine and not worthy of careful treatment?
• Question 12: Does Judge Sotomayor continue to believe that the city of New Haven should have been allowed to scrap the results of its firefighter exam on the basis of race?
• Question 15: Is the Constitution color-blind?

These questions do not include the ones Steve Sailer proposed recently such as

You have described yourself on video as “a product of affirmative action” and an “affirmative action baby” and that it is “critical that we promote diversity.” Considering your often-expressed passionate views on the topic and personal self-interest in promoting ethnic preferences, how could Frank Ricci have expected even-handed, colorblind justice from you?

and

Considering the personal benefits that ethnic preferences have provided you over the years, shouldn’t you have recused yourself from the Ricci case?

I’m a little late commenting on this story, which is three days old, but hey, I’m not as late as the legal profession:

After 40 years, Phila. schools settle desegregation case

By Kristen A. Graham, Philadelphia Inquirer, July 8, 2009

The Philadelphia School District is expected to formally settle an almost 40-year-old desegregation case today.

At a special meeting scheduled for this morning, the School Reform Commission is set to vote on a settlement for a lawsuit that at first sought to desegregate city schools, then focused on providing equal opportunities for minority students.

The terms of the settlement were not clear yesterday.

Brought by the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission in 1970, the suit initially sought an order for the district to bus students to establish racial balance in city schools. For 25 years, a series of superintendents resisted the order and a series of judges declined to enforce it.[More]

That’s an amazing amount of desegregation for a city that never had de jure segregation in the first place. Pennsylvania was on the Northern side in the Civil War, and it has been unlawful to make “any distinction whatever” on the basis of race in public schools since 1881. The fact that the state established their own “Human Relations Commission” in the 1950’s shows that they had good intentions as far as desegregation goes. But it’s never enough. Note that the lawsuit “at first sought to desegregate city schools, then focused on providing equal opportunities for minority students.”

That means either equality of results, which isn’t going to happen, or major increases in funding.

By the way, when I said below that we at VDARE.com “we don’t do a lot of bilingualism ourselves,” I meant that we don’t do bilingualism on principle, not because we can’t. Our list of writers includes native speakers of English who have no trouble finding their way around in German, Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Spanish, (several Spanish speakers) and Comanche. We just don’t think you should have to.

America is a poorer place this weekend.

On Friday the BBC reported

Pair jailed for web race crimes

Friday, 10 July 2009 18:30 UK

Simon Sheppard and Steven Whittle were incarcerated for four years and 10 months and two years and 4 months for becoming the first in the UK to be convicted of inciting racial hatred via a foreign website.

The pair thought that they could circumvent English law because their website was hosted in the US.
That, said Adil Khan, head of diversity and community cohesion at Humberside Police, makes their conviction a first.

“diversity and community cohesion” – could this be a joke? These men are being imprisoned for expressing an opinion.

(Congratulate Adil Khan on his grasp of English Liberties. I suppose you should be polite.)

(Later VDARE.com note: In the democratic traditions of his homeland, Kahn has apparently disabled his normal email address. Tell the Humberside Police how contemptible they are.)

Very Bad.

The problem for us is that they came to America and appealed for American protection.

Nicholas Stix has documented this. When they fled to America:

Federal Judge Rose Peters, who five years ago prevented the deportation of

Sean O’Cealleagh, who was convicted of aiding and abetting the murder of two British army corporals at an IRA funeral in 1988.

and who has a systematically peculiar history, found the fortitude to flatly reject the plea of Whittle and Sheppard, who were never accused of any violence or indeed of any crime which is a crime in U.S. law.

(Yet.)

What this of course proves is the Judiciary is politicized and no protection when the issue of white nationalism/particularism can be invoked.

As I said on Friday:

Life imprisonment for speeding while Republican

The Bell tolls for thee

… shouldn’t be to try to show that she’s outside the liberal mainstream, but to show what the liberal mainstream actually is.