WASHINGTON – Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee aren't letting go of the issue involving white firefighters from Connecticut who last month won a reverse discrimination case at the Supreme Court.
With firefighter Frank Ricci ready to testify, Sen. John Kyl questioned Judge Sonia Sotomayor aggressively Thursday about her ruling against him as a member of a panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Sotomayor said repeatedly that the ruling was on a narrow issue and she sidestepped direct answers about the case.
Kyl interrupted her, demanding that she explain what precedent she had relied upon on in ruling against Ricci and other firefighters from New Haven, Conn. At one point, he told Sotomayor that she was "not answering my question."