Over the weekend the McClatchy news chain reported that supporters of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor were urging members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to attack "troubled and litigious work history" of firefighter Frank Ricci, the lead plantiff in the workplace discrimination case upon which, in essence, Judge Sotomayor recently ruled - and on which she was overturned by the United States Supreme Court.

To be clear -- attacking first responders in an effort to burnish the credentials of a presidential nominee for any office is a bad strategy.

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