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Christian case could impact Obama pick

By Alliance Alert

FOX News, liveshots blog: "Carrie Severino, policy director for the conservative Judicial Crisis Network, draws the comparison between the CLS case and the situation now Justice Sonia Sotomayor faced during last year's confirmation process. 'If Diane Wood is nominated to the Supreme Court, the CLS case could be her Ricci," Severino said in referring to Ricci v. DeStefano, last year's affirmative action case that drew so much attention to Sotomayor. 'If the Supreme Court rules for the Christian Legal Society . . . Judge Wood will have an uphill battle to convince the Senators and the American people that she is in the judicial mainstream' . . . 'Underneath the surface of her dissent, everyone recognizes that she thinks the homosexual agenda is more important than the First Amendment,' CLS lawyer [Greg Baylor] told Fox News."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on April 16, 2010 (boomark / email).