"It's not often that Supreme Court opinions go into such detail to criticize the way a city is run."
Overlawyered.com proprietor and Reason Contributing Editor Walter Olson had a great New York Post op-ed earlier this week on the Supreme Court's decision in Ricci v. DeStefano:
MORAL of the day: If you're going to give white job applicants the shaft, don't be blatant about it. Moral No. 2: Don't annoy Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy….
Most of all, Kennedy went out of his way to document his evident disgust with the way New Haven leaders, from Mayor John DiStefano on down, handled the firefighter controversy.
The after-the-fact and pretextual rationalizations they devised, Kennedy wrote, were "blatantly contradicted by the record." And that was just the start of the unwelcome scrutiny of New Haven's town fathers….
It's not often that Supreme Court opinions go into such detail to criticize the way a city is run. Some high-profile figures in Connecticut's Elm City must be quite embarrassed right now–if they're capable of embarrassment.