SPINNING THE SUPREME COURT RULING 

Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued its final set of decisions for a while and one of these included the New Haven firefighter case originally decided by nominee Sonia Sotomayor. But the Supreme Court ended up reversing Sotomayor's lower court ruling.

So the White House had its explanation all ready to go. The new line is that the reversal of Sotomayor's ruling proves that she follows judicial precedent. Robert Gibbs says that this should put to rest any claims that Sotomayor is an activist judge. He says, "One thing is clear, that the ruling by Judge Sotomayor was based on the precedent of the Second Circuit. ... The Supreme Court clearly had a new interpretation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act."