Talk about wedge tactics.

Take a look at this line of New Haven firefighters filing into the Sotomayor confirmation hearings Wednesday morning. (If you don't know the backstory, the Supremes recently overturned Sotomayor's New Haven decision, the court asserting white firefighters, led by the litigious Frank Ricci, were unfairly treated by the tossing out of a promotion exam minority test-takers did comparatively worse on.)

With the glow firefighters continue to carry...