The Judicial Confirmation Network, a group of legally minded conservatives, just issued this action alert:

Dear Friend,
They risk their lives for people like you and me every day. Can you spare 5 minutes to help a heroic firefighter now under attack from liberal special interest groups?
Liberals have launched an 11th-hour smear campaign against an honorable firefighter – Frank Ricci – who is scheduled to testify this week at the Senate confirmation hearings of Obama Supreme Court nominee and liberal judicial activist Sonia Sotomayor.
Frank Ricci is one of 19 New Haven, Connecticut firefighters who were denied promotion because they were the wrong color.
When they went to court to assert their constitutional rights, Judge Sotomayor tried to throw Frank Ricci and other New Haven firefighters out of court and bury their claims asking for fair and equal treatment. Fortunately, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Sotomayor just last month, drawing needed attention to her judicial shenanigans and racial preference activism.
Unfortunately, President Obama’s nominee has a long history of this type of activism. Sotomayor now has one of the highest levels of public opposition of any Supreme Court nominee in the last two decades, according to the latest CNN poll. And no wonder: She has openly said that her status as a “wise Latina” means she makes better decisions than a white male, and that judges are entitled to decide cases based on their own personal views and agenda.
Sotomayor has also made clear her agenda includes activism for racial quotas.
And that is what she tried to impose on Frank Ricci.
Now, when he has an opportunity to tell his story to the country, Sotomayor’s liberal interest group supporters have launched an attack campaign to intimidate and smear him. They have chosen the wrong target. People who run into burning buildings to save others do not frighten easily.
What is particularly shocking about this stealth campaign is that in order to try and discredit him, liberals are using the fact that he has dyslexia and once raised a legal claim based on this disability. The extremist group People for the American Way has been secretly urging journalists to smear Ricci for properly asserting his rights as a disabled person under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Here’s what you can do to join us at www.judicialnetwork.com and stop this outrage:
Please call Senator Michael Bennet (202-224-5852, http://bennet.senate.gov/contact/) and ask him to publicly disavow this last-minute smear campaign against Frank Ricci.
And please sign our petition on the subject, at www.judicialnetwork.com .
JCN has been working since 2005 for a fair and open Senate confirmation process for Supreme Court and other federal judicial nominees. Please join us in fighting for a judicial system based on impartial judges who are faithful to the Constitution.
With thanks for your support,
Gary Marx
Executive Director
Judicial Confirmation Network