Ted Kennedy: The Problem With The Supreme Court Is That They Follow The Law

Last May, the Supreme Court faced a textbook case of pay discrimination. Lilly Ledbetter was one of a few women supervisors working at a Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company plant in Gadsden, Alabama, and she remained at the plant despite her bosses' bias against women. One even told her that "the plant did not need women," that women "caused problems." For almost two decades, the company systematically downgraded her performance evaluations to pay her less than male colleagues who performed the same duties. Her pay eventually fell 15 percent to 40 percent behind her male counterparts.

In 2003 a jury found that Ms. Ledbetter was paid less because she is a woman, and she was awarded full damages to correct the injustice. But in a 5-4 opinion, the Supreme Court held that Ms. Ledbetter was entitled to nothing at all. The majority ruled that she should have filed her case within a few months after the employer decided to pay her less than her male coworkers.

Ann nails it:

Yes, because you and your fellow members of Congress wrote a bad statute. Fix it.

Sen. Kennedy would prefer that the court ignore the statute of limitations Congress wrote into the law. Pathetic. And sad, as Ted isn't the only liberal who believes that the court should ignore law and substitute whatever populist pap they feel like - making up law as they go. All of the Democrats running for President would appoint judges who would fulfill Teddy's judicial wet dreams.

This is exactly why the upcoming election is so important.

I'd be remiss if I didn't point out the irony in Ted Kennedy writing an article with the words "wrong turn" in the title.

The article goes on to highlight the Alito and Roberts confirmation hearings and the sheer audacity of the two most recent justices to refuse answering a few questions. I wonder why his outrage was suppressed when Ginsburg was confirmed?