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Supreme Court sends Texas affirmative action case back to lower court



Supreme Court sends Texas affirmative action case back to lower court


Supreme Court sends Texas affirmative action case back to lower court

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Bessent: Supreme Court takes a pass on affirmative action


Bessent: Supreme Court takes a pass on affirmative action

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Supreme Court Sends Affirmative Action Case Back to Lower Court


Supreme Court Sends Affirmative Action Case Back to Lower Court

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Supreme Court sends affirmative action case back to lower courts



Supreme Court sends affirmative action case back to lower courts


Supreme Court sends affirmative action case back to lower courts

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Supreme Court Sends Affirmative Action Case Back To Appeals Court






Supreme Court Sends Affirmative Action Case Back To Appeals Court



Supreme Court Sends Affirmative Action Case Back To Appeals Court


Supreme Court Sends Affirmative Action Case Back To Appeals Court

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Delaware experts weigh in on Supreme Court's affirmative action ruling


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Supreme Court sends affirmative action case for further review


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Why did Supreme Court pass on affirmative action decision? : Latest News, Information, Answers and Websites

Do you think the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision to end school segregation was good or bad for the nation?

.......in the long run.

Answer: Bad, because of what happened as a consequence.

To make the decision look good (spinning) when there were very few black teachers it was decided to rubber stamp many of them through...in other words, pass or fail there were hundreds of black teachers magically produced in record quick time.

Since these teachers were under qualified and had very little ability the decline in educational standards commenced and is continuing to this day.

Affirmative action produces even more under qualified teachers who lack the ability and or training to teach effectively.

Throwing money at our Public schools sure doesn't help...we need good, dedicated and QUALIFIED teachers. By rubber stamping unqualified teachers we do a major disservice to ALL our children.
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For The Sake Of Argument

On a steamy Wednesday in August, Pat Moynihan rode with his family up Pennsylvania Avenue, a street he helped to resurrect, to the White House, a building where he once worked, to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, an award that 37 years ago he assisted in creating. Hillary Clinton, the Democrat who hopes to inherit his seat in the Senate, - Jacob Weisberg profile of Sen Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who is retiring after serving in Kennedy and Nixon administrations and as senator from New York since 1981; photos (L) - Jacob Weisberg is chief political correspondent for Slate. He has written for the magazine about Bill Clinton, Robert Rubin and others. - By Jacob Weisberg

What Outstanding results can we expect from Obamas African American Education Initiative?

Obama to launch African American education initiative

http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/07/obama-to-launch-african-american-education-initiative-130099.html

""aims to ensure that all African American students can receive an education that fully prepares them for high school graduation, college completion and productive careers."

How come only Blacks get this outstanding program????

Answer: It's just more affirmative action -- "quotas," actually -- which acknowledges that blacks can't "make it" on their own: a concept hidden deep in the democrat party's radically racist past:

-pbs.org: “The Klan quickly became a terrorist organization in service of the Democratic Party and white supremacy. Between 1869 and 1871 its goal was to destroy Congressional Reconstruction by murdering blacks -- and some whites -- who were either active in Republican politics or educating black children.”
-pbs.org: After [democrat] Wilson was elected in 1912 blacks were segregated or dismissed from federal positions.
-thewhitehousemuseum.org:The first film to be shown inside the White House was The Birth of a Nation, a racist epic that celebrates the Ku Klux Klan as America's saviors. Pres. Wilson [democrat] screened it in 1915 in part to repay a political debt to southern supporters, and such choices have tainted his place in American history ever since.
-6/11/12 npr.org: “One hundred members of Congress from the South — 19 senators and 81 representatives (96 Democrats and four Republicans) — present a "Declaration of Constitutional Principles" that criticized the Supreme Court in its Brown v. Board of Education decision for desegregating schools and protested civil rights initiatives.”
-During the 60’s all of the racist leaders were democrat: Bull Conner, Faubus, Fulbright. “During this period, they [KKK] often forged alliances with Southern police departments, as in Birmingham, Alabama; or with governor's offices, as with George Wallace of Alabama who, on his inauguration as governor of Alabama on January 14, 1963, proclaimed "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” wikipedia
-Which party in the Senate supported the 1964 Civil Rights Act? Democrats 63%, Republicans 80%. In the House? Democrats 61%, Republicans 80%.
-Which party opposed the 1965 Civil Rights Act in the Senate? Democrats 27%; Republicans 6%. In the House? Democrats 22%; Republicans 18%.
-Dem. Senator Robert Byrd wrote to segregationist Mississippi Senator Theodore Bilbo: "I shall never fight in the armed forces with a ***** by my side... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds." He served in the Senate until 2010.
-Byrd created a new chapter of the KKK and rose to prominence as the "Grand Dragon" of the entire Mid-Atlantic states. (6/19/05 Washington Post)
-Byrd filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act that outlawed major forms of discrimination against African Americans and women, including racial segregation.
-Byrd used the “N” word: On CNN, 3/4/01, “West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd apologized Sunday for a slur he used during a discussion of race relations in a nationally broadcast interview.” (You can see him say it by google searching “Byrd says the N word”). He was the top democrat in the Senate at the time.
-Byrd died in-office less than two years ago. He was the longest-serving senator in history, from 1959 to 2010. Democrats chose him as Senate Majority Leader many times. The Democrat Party loved him even though he was a vile racist: “Vice President Biden said today that with the passing of Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) the Senate lost a legend and he lost a dear friend and mentor.” 6/28/10 ABC News.
Category: Politics

Have recent Supreme Court decisions expanded or contracted the scope of affirmative action?

What cases could be used as evidence?

Answer: contracted.

Beginning with the Supreme Court case Bakke (reverse discrimination), it began to contract.

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/affirmative1.html

Later in Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger, the Supreme Court affirmed Powell's opinion, rejecting "quotas", but allowing race to be one "factor" in college admissions to meet the compelling interest of diversity.

But see...also

Parents v. Seattle (2007) where the U.S. Supreme Court held that assigning students to public schools solely for the purpose of achieving racial integration and declined to recognize racial balancing as a compelling state interest was prohibited by the Constitution.

Also-

Ricci v. DeStefano, 557 U.S. ___ (2009), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States arising from a lawsuit brought against the city of New Haven, Connecticut by nineteen city firefighters alleging that the city discriminated against them with regard to promotions. The firefighters, seventeen of whom are white and two of whom are Hispanic, had all passed the test for promotions to management. City of New Haven officials invalidated the test results because none of the black firefighters who passed the exam had scored high enough to be considered for the positions. They stated that they feared a lawsuit over the test’s disparate impact on a protected minority. The complainants claimed they were denied the promotions because of their race—a form of racial discrimination.
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The Hole in the Citys Heart

On July Fourth two years ago, eight weeks before the Republican National Convention in New York City, Gov. George E. Pataki traveled from the Hamptons summer home of his senior economic adviser, Charles A. Gargano, to the dusty crater in the center of Lower Manhattan. Draped in the symbolism of Independence Day, the two men descended into the - Special section Broken Ground examines status of development of World Trade Center site five years after Sept 11 terrorist attacks; photos; timelines; maps; drawings (L) - By DEBORAH SONTAG; Clifford J. Levy and Jenny Nordberg contributed reporting.

Where Race Matters

Every day before his lecture Introduction to Constitutional Law, Prof. Richard Primus conducts a ritual that Hollywood might call Socratic method meets social engineering. In an office tucked off the law library stacks, he takes out two piles of index cards adorned with the face-book pictures of his 91 first-year students. Like a blackjack - Jodi Wilgoren article on ways in which University of Michigan Law Schools raced-based admissions policies, subject of Supreme Court challenge, play out in classroom, dining hall and dorm; impact of policies are both obvious and invisible, threaded through fabric of campus life; 21 of 346 current first-year students who are black tend to huddle together outside and even inside many classrooms; class discussions range across spectrum of experience; some blacks see expectation that they supply different perspectives as unfair burden; students of all races and many professors seem dubious about constitutionality of schools approach to affirmative action, but say they want school to retain its carefully constructed mix; photos (special section, Education Life) (L) - Jodi Wilgoren is the Midwest bureau chief for The Times. - By Jodi Wilgoren

Why are Republicans sayin Martin Luther King was a Republican?

Dr. King was a proud Black man who stood for civil rights and equality. How could he have been a Republican? I think they be lyin.

Answer: *please read all*

It should come as no surprise that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. In that era, almost all black Americans were Republicans. Why? From its founding in 1854 as the anti-slavery party until today, the Republican Party has championed freedom and civil rights for blacks. And as one pundit so succinctly stated, the Democrat Party is as it always has been, the party of the four S's: slavery, secession, segregation and now socialism.

It was the Democrats who fought to keep blacks in slavery and passed the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. The Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan to lynch and terrorize blacks. The Democrats fought to prevent the passage of every civil rights law beginning with the civil rights laws of the 1860s, and continuing with the civil rights laws of the 1950s and 1960s.

During the civil rights era of the 1960s, Dr. King was fighting the Democrats who stood in the school house doors, turned skin-burning fire hoses on blacks and let loose vicious dogs. It was Republican President Dwight Eisenhower who pushed to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and sent troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools. President Eisenhower also appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision ending school segregation. Much is made of Democrat President Harry Truman's issuing an Executive Order in 1948 to desegregate the military. Not mentioned is the fact that it was Eisenhower who actually took action to effectively end segregation in the military.

It was the Republicans who fought to free blacks from slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom (13th Amendment), citizenship (14th Amendment) and the right to vote (15th Amendment). Republicans passed the civil rights laws of the 1860s, including the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Reconstruction Act of 1867 that was designed to establish a new government system in the Democrat-controlled South, one that was fair to blacks. Republicans also started the NAACP and affirmative action with Republican President Richard Nixon's 1969 Philadelphia Plan (crafted by black Republican Art Fletcher) that set the nation's fist goals and timetables.
Few black Americans know that it was Republicans who founded the Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Unknown also is the fact that Republican Sen. Everett Dirksen from Illinois was key to the passage of civil rights legislation in 1957, 1960, 1964 and 1965. Not mentioned in recent media stories about extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act is the fact that Dirksen wrote the language for the bill. Dirksen also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.


@Volant sorry you are wrong.
Contrary to the FALSE assertions by Democrats, the racist "Dixiecrats" did not all migrate to the Republican Party. "Dixiecrats" declared that they would rather vote for a "yellow dog" than vote for a Republican because the Republican Party was know as the party for blacks. Today, some of those "Dixiecrats" continue their political careers as Democrats, including Robert Byrd, who is well known for having been a "Keagle" in the Ku Klux Klan.

Another former "Dixiecrat" is former Democrat Sen. Ernest Hollings, who put up the Confederate flag over the state Capitol when he was the governor of South Carolina. There was no public outcry when Democrat Sen. Christopher Dodd praised Byrd as someone who would have been "a great senator for any moment," including the Civil War. Yet Democrats denounced then-Senate GOP leader Trent Lott for his remarks about Sen. Strom Thurmond (R.-S.C.). Thurmond was never in the Ku Klux Klan and defended blacks against lynching and the discriminatory poll taxes imposed on blacks by Democrats. If Byrd and Thurmond were alive during the Civil War, and Byrd had his way, Thurmond would have been lynched.
Today, Democrats, in pursuit of their socialist agenda, are fighting to keep blacks poor, angry and voting for Democrats. Examples of how egregiously Democrats act to keep blacks in poverty are numerous.

After wrongly convincing black Americans that a minimum wage increase was a good thing, the Democrats on August 3 kept their promise and killed the minimum wage bill passed by House Republicans on July 29. The blockage of the minimum wage bill was the second time in as many years that Democrats stuck a legislative finger in the eye of black Americans. Senate Democrats on April 1, 2004, blocked passage of a bill to renew the 1996 welfare reform law that was pushed by Republicans and vetoed twice by President Clinton before he finally signed it. Since the welfare reform law expired in September 2002, Congress had passed six extensions, and the latest expired on June 30, 2004. Opposed by the Democrats are school choice opportunity scholarships that would help black children get out of failing schools and Social Security reform, even though blacks on average lose $10,000 in the current system because of a shorter life expectancy than whites (72.2 years for blacks vs. 77.5 years for whites).

Democrats have been running our inner-cities for the past 30 to 40 years, and blacks are still complaining about the same problems. More than $7 trillion dollars have been spent on poverty programs since Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty with little, if any, impact on poverty. Diabolically, every election cycle, Democrats blame Republicans for the deplorable conditions in the inner-cities, then incite blacks to cast a protest vote against Republicans.

In order to break the Democrats' stranglehold on the black vote and free black Americans from the Democrat Party's economic plantation, we must shed the light of truth on the Democrats. We must demonstrate that the Democrat Party policies of socialism and dependency on government handouts offer the pathway to poverty, while Republican Party principles of hard work, personal responsibility, getting a good education and ownership of homes and small businesses offer the pathway to prosperity.
Category: Politics

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ARE RESERVATION IN JOBS OR EDUCATION FOR PARTICULAR COMMUNITY , CASTEOR RELIGION JUSTIFIED?

After so many years of freedom ...is reservation for particular caste ,creed or community justifed...in the fields of education or job?

Answer: Considering the socio-economic condition of majority of our population who lives in extreme poverty and for whom question of survival is more important than education or good job. They definitely need some proper state support which should be delivered to them only.

Due to historical causes awareness for education was more related to community & cast than economic status of a person.

After independence reservations were provided to SC & ST community. Almost 20 yrs ago H'nble Supreme court decided that cast should be the criteria for reservation & OBCs also were included. Later on creamy layer of OBCs were excluded from reservation. Previously it was directed by Supreme court that reservation will not be considered in promotion & in any circumstances it should not be more than 50%. Later on Parliament decided consideration of reservation for SC & ST for promotion. Recently Supreme court decided in favor of more than 50% reservation by state, if need for that can be proved.

Affirmative action/reservation is not a static process it is a dynamic process as shown by our Parliament and H'nble Supreme court by above decisions time to time. They changed there own decision according to the need of the society. Constant assessment of cause & effect of Reservation on the community & necessary alteration is necessary to include those who are needy & to exclude those who became aware and achieved something.

Before independence most of the resources, opportunity and awareness for development were in the hands of selected cast and community (Forward). Few persons of the Forward community & majority of Reserved communities were nowhere in the competition. It was need of the hour then to provide them some state support.

After 60 yrs of reservation for SC & ST, and 20 yrs for OBCs, some positive effects are visible but not up to the desired level. It didn't reach to every one.

Considering huge population of our country, even if all the available jobs in the Govt & Private sector and all the educational institutions are kept 100% reserved for SCs, STs & OBCs even then the majority & more needy population of these community will never get the advantage of social justice.

Any affirmative action must consider growth of our country as first priority which depends more on uplift of lowermost strata of the society. State can't provide everything to even a small number of population. State should provide support to those who don't have anything rather than wasting resource for those who are having everything or even something.

It is evident fact & visible everywhere that those of reserved community who availed the state support earlier are now not behind their forward counterpart in educational, social & political arena. Now it's their turn to pass the benefit to those who never received it and far away from any development.

It is not social justice to provide facilities to those only who are already availing it and to deny those who are even unaware of it. Need of the hour now demands gradual inclusion of more persons in the creamy layer for exclusion from reservation. Those who are in Gr- B job or who are earning more than Rs- 20000 per month should be included in the creamy layer. Later on those who are in Gr- C job or who are earning more than Rs- 15000 per month should also be included in the creamy layer. Those of unreserved community who are below poverty line should be provided state support for true social justice. This is the only way to provide social justice to those who needs it most.This is desired for growth of our country.

Previously only cast were important criteria for social justice but now with gradual development of reserved community, economic criteria (to define creamy layer) also became important for true social justice. Otherwise those who availed state support will now stand along with affluent forward community, to snatch all the resources from those who never got the opportunity (either from reserved community or below poverty line forward community)- neither before independence nor thereafter.
Category: Other - Cultures & Groups

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What legal action would need to be taken for affirmative action to end?



Answer: A bill would have to be passed that says people should not be chosen for race or ethnicity or the Supreme Court would have to rule so.

In the Supreme Court decision, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, it was ruled that race could only be counted as one factor and the decision to accept a minority citizen to a job or a college based solely on race is illegal.
Category: Law & Ethics

What famous man (never a Republican, though they try to claim him) said these words?

"I never intend to adjust myself to economic conditions that will take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few."

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

It was statements like this that led Republicans at the time to call him a "communist."

Answer: Why do you deny he was a Republican?

1. What Party was founded as the anti-slavery Party and fought to free blacks from slavery?
[ ] a. Democratic Party [ ] b. Republican Party

2. What is the Party of Abraham Lincoln who signed the emancipation proclamation that resulted in the Juneteenth celebrations that occur in black communities today?
[ ] a. Democratic Party [ ] b. Republican Party

3. What Party passed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution granting blacks
freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote?
[ ] a. Democratic Party [ ] b. Republican Party

4. What Party passed the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875 granting blacks protection from the Black Codes and
prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations, and the Party of most blacks prior to the 1960’s, including
Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Booker T. Washington, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
[ ] a. Democratic Party [ ] b. Republican Party

5. What is the Party of the founding fathers of the NAACP?
[ ] a. Democratic Party [ ] b. Republican Party

6. What is the Party of President Dwight Eisenhower who signed the 1957 Civil Rights Act, sent U.S. troops to Arkansas
to desegregate schools, established the Civil Rights Commission in 1958, and appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the
U.S. Supreme Court which resulted in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision ending school segregation?
[ ] a. Democratic Party [ ] b. Republican Party

7. What Party, by the greatest percentage, passed the Civil Rights Acts of the 1950’s and 1960’s?
[ ] a. Democratic Party [ ] b. Republican Party

8. What is the Party of President Richard Nixon who instituted the first Affirmative Action program in 1969 with the
Philadelphia Plan that established goals and timetables, a plan crafted by black Republican Art Fletcher?
[ ] a. Democratic Party [ ] b. Republican Party

9. What is the Party of President George W. Bush who appointed more blacks to high-level positions than any president in
history and who spent record money on education, job training and health care to help black Americans prosper?
[ ] a. Democratic Party [ ] b. Republican Party

10. What Party fought to keep blacks in slavery and was the Party of the Ku Klux Klan?
[ ] a. Republican Party [ ] b. Democratic Party

11. What Party from 1870 to 1930 used fraud, whippings, lynching, murder, intimidation, and mutilation to get the black
vote, and passed the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws which legalized racial discrimination and denied blacks civil rights?
[ ] a. Republican Party [ ] b. Democratic Party

12. What is the Party of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Harry Truman who rejected anti-lynching laws and
efforts to establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission?
[ ] a. Republican Party [ ] b. Democratic Party

13. What is the Party of President Lyndon Johnson, who called Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “that [N-word] preacher”
because he opposed the Viet Nam War; and President John F. Kennedy who voted against the 1957 Civil Rights law as a
Senator, then as president opposed Dr. King’s 1963 March on Washington and had Dr. King investigated by the FBI on
suspicion of being a communist?
[ ] a. Republican Party [ ] b. Democratic Party

14. What is the Party of the late Senators Robert Byrd who was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, former Governor Ernest
“Fritz” Hollings who hoisted the Confederate flag over the state capitol in South Carolina , and the late Senator Ted
Kennedy who called black judicial “Neanderthals” while blocking their appointments?
[ ] a. Republican Party [ ] b. Democratic Party

15. What is the Party of President Bill Clinton who refused to send troops to Rwanda to save 800,000 blacks from being
killed in 1994, vetoed the welfare reform law twice before signing it, and refused to comply with a court order to have
shipping companies stop discriminating against blacks and develop an Affirmative Action Plan?
[ ] a. Republican Party [ ] b. Democratic Party

16. What Party is against school choice opportunity scholarships that would help poor blacks get out of failing schools
and takes the black vote for granted without ever acknowledging their racist past or apologizing for trying to expand
slavery, lynching blacks and passing the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws that caused great harm to blacks?
[ ] a. Republican Party [ ] b. Democratic Party
Category: Politics

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How was Regents of University of California vs. Bakke a landmark decision?



Answer: It was the first challenge to Affirmative Action. The Supreme Court held in Bakke's favor without striking it down. They ordered the U of CA to grant him a slot in medical school because he had earned it. AA was too politically popular at the time for the SC to disallow it so they sidestepped the primary issue in the case, deferring it until the will of the American people changed. There's no question AA is not fair. By granting favor based on race alone, those who merit the favor are passed over.
Category: History

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What 10 things/laws/policies would you implement or discard?

if you had absolute power over the USA for one day (and your decision would be permanent).

Answer: 1) Make all active duty military personnel and Guard/Reserves who are activated completely exempt from paying federal income taxes and strongly discourage states from imposing state income taxes upon them. I would not interfere with the states' rights to collect revenue but I would damn well ensure that service members were aware of the fact that they could change their home of record at will.

2) Mandate use of the E-Verify system for ALL employers in the U.S.; those who are here illegal will not work and employers will pay the price for hiring those who are not entitled. Once work is taken away, the illegals will leave.

3) abolish the 14th Amendment to rid our country of the creation of "anchor-babies", then pass another, updated Amendment which includes the Equal Protection Clause.

4) Move the National Guard to the southern border.

5) Pass a constitutional amendment requiring congress to be subject to every law that they pass and grandfather it to 1900. Impose term limits on congress. Eliminate retirements for members of congress. Eliminate congress' ability to vote in pay-raises for themselves. Provide harsh punishments for legislators who violate laws and ethics rules and mandate that if a state loses a representative due to a conviction or ethics violation, they lose the seat until the next regularly-scheduled congressional elections. Create national recall procedures for those legislators who are found to be advocating causes that are contrary to the constitution.

6) Impose a nationwide sliding-scale flat-tax that ensures that everybody except the bottom 5% of wage earners contribute.

7) Eliminate funding for the uber-partisan NPR, PBS and NEA. Sever all governmental ties with ACORN and the labor unions.

8) Create a "free", non-competitive, nationwide broadband internet access network for all citizens (which all ISPs can improve upon!) and reinstall non-partisan versions of NPR and PBS. An informed public, is a useful public!

9) Begin drilling in ANWAR and anywhere else that may provide us with sufficient petroleum resources to eliminate our dependence on foreign oil until we can find other sources of energy. Encourage the building of nuclear, solar, wind and other clean power sources and reward those states which show the highest level of energy independence.

10) Rescind all foreign aid until such time as the national debt is eliminated.

11) Utilize "mirror image" trade regulations to ensure fair trade practices. Impose tariffs on products that are "imported" by companies which move off-shore.

12) Eliminate all "hate crimes" legislation. This goes against the Equal Protection Clause and most Americans are too stupid to recognize it.

13) Remove Jerry Jones as the owner of the Dallas Cowboys.

14) Make Supreme Court Justices and Federal Judges subject to 10-year reviews and re-appointments.

15) Constitutionally define marriage laws as a states' rights issue.

16) Constitutionally define the Second Amendment as applying to all persons to whom the First Amendment applies.

17) Deny entrance into the United States to all persons who reside in countries which are determined to significantly contribute to terrorism.

18) Revoke U.S. membership in the UN and evict the UN from American soil. Cut-off all U.S. funding for the UN.

19) Eliminate affirmative action and implement reward-for-effort.

20) Shun global warming as a nationally-accepted science but do everything that we can to improve our national environmental situation, without emasculating our economy.

OK, that's twice what you asked for and I could give you a three page list.
Category: Politics

What was the goal of the civil rights movement in the United States?



Answer: To promote Civil Rights and economic equality for all, and any race. Movement for racial equality in the U.S. that, through nonviolent protest, broke the pattern of racial segregation in the South and achieved equal rights legislation for blacks. Following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), African American and white supporters attempted to end entrenched segregationist practices. When Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 in Montgomery, Ala., an African American boycott of the bus system was led by Martin Luther King, Jr., and Ralph Abernathy. In the early 1960s the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee led boycotts and sit-ins to desegregate many public facilities. Using the nonviolent methods of Mohandas K. Gandhi, the movement spread, forcing the desegregation of department stores, supermarkets, libraries, and movie theatres. The Deep South remained adamant in its opposition to most desegregation measures, often violently; protesters were attacked and occasionally killed. Their efforts culminated in a march on Washington, D.C., in 1963 to support civil rights legislation. Following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson persuaded Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a victory that was followed by the Voting Rights Act in 1965. After 1965, militant groups such as the Black Panther Party split off from the civil rights movement, and riots in black ghettos and King's assassination caused many supporters to withdraw. In the succeeding decades, leaders sought power through elective office and substantive economic and educational gains through affirmative action.
Category: Homework Help

Is it wise to turn over complete control of our government to the Democrats ?


Isnt it risky to remove the checks and balances, and give all the power of government to a bunch of liberal Democrats - including Congress - knowing they will give Obama anything he asks for ?

Seems like an imbalance of power to me.

Answer: Not a chance.

The Republican Party was founded as the anti-slavery Party and fought to free blacks from slavery.
The Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln who signed the emancipation proclamation that resulted in the Juneteenth celebrations that occur in black communities today?
The Republican Party passed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution granting blacks freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote?
The Republican Party passed the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875 granting blacks protection from the Black Codes and prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations, and was the Party of most blacks prior to the 1960’s, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Booker T. Washington, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
President Dwight Eisenhower of The Republican Party sent U.S. troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools, established the Civil Rights Commission in 1958, and appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court which resulted in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision ending school segregation
The Republican Party, by the greatest percentage, passed the1957 Civil Rights Act and the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960’s.
President Richard Nixon of The Republican Party instituted the first Affirmative Action program in 1969 with the Philadelphia Plan that established goals and timetables.
The Republican Party of President George W. Bush who supports the U.S. Supreme Court’s University of Michigan Affirmative Action decision, and is spending over $200 billion to fight AIDS in Africa and on programs to help black Americans prosper, including school vouchers, the faith-based initiative, home ownership, and small business ownership
The Democratic Party fought to keep blacks in slavery and was the Party of the Ku Klux Klan.
The Democratic Party from 1870 to 1930 used fraud, whippings, lynching, murder, intimidation, and mutilation to get the black vote, and passed the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws which legalized racial discrimination and denied blacks their rights as citizens.
The Democratic Party of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Harry Truman rejected anti-lynching laws and efforts to establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission.
The Democratic Party of President John F. Kennedy who voted against the 1957 Civil Rights law as a Senator, then opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. after becoming president, and later had the FBI (supervised by his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy) investigate Dr. King on suspicion of being a communist.
The Democratic Party of current Senator Robert Byrd who was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Senator Fritz Hollings who hoisted the Confederate flag over the state capitol in South Carolina when he was the governor, and Senator Ted Kennedy who recently insulted black judicial nominees by calling them “Neanderthals” while blocking their appointments.
The Democratic Party of President Bill Clinton failed to fight the terrorists after the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, sent troops to war in Bosnia and Kosovo without Congressional approval, vetoed the Welfare Reform law twice before signing it, and refused to comply with a court order to have shipping companies develop an Affirmative Action Plan.
The Democratic Party of Vice President Al Gore whose father voted against the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960’s, and who lost the 2000 election as confirmed by a second recount of Florida votes by the “Miami Herald” and a consortium of major news organizations and the ruling by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission that blacks were not denied the right to vote.
The Democratic Party is against the faith-based initiative, against school vouchers, against school prayers, and takes the black vote for granted without ever acknowledging their racist past or apologizing for trying to expand slavery, lynching blacks and passing the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws that caused great harm to blacks.
Category: Politics

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What is the Franks vs. Bowman Transportation Co or United Steel Workers of America v. Weber case about?

Like what did it determine? or what was the result? I dont really understand, I think i get the basics, but i need clarification. thanks!

Answer: Link to the Case Preview: http://supreme.justia.com/us/424/747/

Link to the Full Text of Case: http://supreme.justia.com/us/424/747/case.html
U.S. Supreme Court
Franks v. Bowman Transportation Co., Inc., 424 U.S. 747 (1976)

Franks v. Bowman Transportation Co., Inc.

No. 74-728

Argued November 3, 1975

Decided March 24, 1976

424 U.S. 747

Syllabus

In a class action against respondent employer and certain labor unions (of which respondent union is the successor) petitioners alleged various racially discriminatory employment practices in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Act), especially with respect to employment of over-the-road (OTR) truck drivers. After certifying the action as a class action and, inter alia, designating one of the classes represented by petitioner Lee as consisting of black nonemployee applicants who applied for and were denied OTR positions prior to January 1, 1972, the District Court permanently enjoined the respondents from perpetuating the discriminatory practices found to exist, and, in regard to the black appliants for OTR positions, ordered the employer to notify the members of the designated class of their right to priority consideration for such jobs. But the court declined to grant the unnamed members of the class any specific relief sought, which included an award of backpay and seniority status retroactive to the date of individual application for an OTR position. While vacating the District Court's judgment insofar as it failed to award backpay to unnamed members of the class and reversing on other grounds, the Court of Appeals affirmed the District Court's denial of any form of seniority relief, holding that such relief was barred, as a matter of law, by § 703(h) of Title VII, which provides that it shall not be an unlawful employment practice for an employer, inter alia, to apply different conditions of employment pursuant to a bona fide seniority system.

Held:

1. That petitioner Lee, the named plaintiff representing the class in question, no longer has a personal stake in the outcome of the action because he had been hired by respondent employer and later was properly discharged for cause does not moot the case. An adverse relationship sufficient to meet the requirement that a "live controversy" remain before this Court not only obtained as to unnamed members of the class with respect to the

Page 424 U. S. 748

underlying cause of action, but also continues with respect to their assertion that the relief they have received in entitlement to consideration for hiring and backpay is inadequate without further award of entitlement to seniority benefits. Pp. 424 U. S. 752-757.

2. Section 703(h) does not bar seniority relief to unnamed members of the class in question, who are not seeking modification or elimination of the existing seniority


Abstract
Argument: Wednesday, March 28, 1979
Decision: Wednesday, June 27, 1979
Issues: Civil Rights, Affirmative Action
Categories: affirmative action, employment, labor, race discrimination


Advocates
Michael R. Fontham (Argued the cause for respondent Weber in all cases)
Michael H. Gottesman (Argued the cause for the petitioner, Steelworkers Union)
Thompson Powers (Argued the cause for the petitioner, Kaiser Aluminum)
Lawrence G. Wallace (Argued the cause for the United States et al., petitioners in No. 78-436)

Facts of the Case

The United Steelworkers of America and the Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation implemented an affirmative action-based training program to increase the number of the company's black skilled craft workers. Half of the eligible positions in the training program were reserved for blacks. Weber, who was white, was passed over for the program. Weber claimed that he was the victim of reverse discrimination. These cases (United Steelworkers v. Weber and Kaiser Aluminum v. Weber) were also decided together with United States v. Weber.

Question

Did United and Kaiser Aluminum's training scheme violate Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race?

Conclusion

No. The Court held that the training scheme was legitimate because the 1964 Act "did not intend to prohibit the private sector from taking effective steps" to implement the goals of Title VII. Since the program sought to eliminate archaic patterns of racial segregation and hierarchy while not prohibiting white employees from advancing in the company, it was consistent with the intent of the law.

Hope this helps.
Category: Economics

Now that we have an African American as president, is affirmative action neessary?

At present, minorities have made great leaps and assimilated into Americas mainstream, do we need to continue?

Answer: Affirmative action is outdated and should be abolished. Sotomayor Obutma's selection for the supreme court is another example of Affirmative Action at work in Washington. Female Hispanic period. Not the smartest, or most experienced, no great decisions in her resume. Nothing to distinguish her at all except she is female and hispanic good enough for Washington and the new American conscience.
Want the best, most qualified person ? nope. ( it was rhetorical) just want to further the minority regardless of quality or merit.
Affirmative Action sucks. Its the political synonym to no child left behind in the scholastic arena. Want the smartest ? or the best ? nope ( again rhetorical ) we just want to standardize everything to the lowest standard necessary to get everyone to pass so we can get the federal money and who cares if the child learns anything, can be competitive or if they even had the best teacher current salary could buy.
Its all bullshit and a rude awakening is on the horizon for we in America, but hopefully we will come out of this liberal downward spiral when it occurs and raise ourselves again to a competitive level.
Category: Politics

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Following is the text of the Supreme Courts decision last night that there could be no further counting of Floridas disputed presidential ballot. The vote in Bush v. Gore was 5 to 4. It is not clear who wrote the majority opinion, but Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist wrote a concurring opinion in which Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence - Text of US Supreme Courts decision that there can be not further counting of Floridas disputed presidential ballots; majority opinion is unsigned; text of concurring opinion written by Chief Justice William H Rehnquist and joined by Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas; texts of four dissenting opinions issued jointly or separately by Justices John Paul Stevens, David H Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G Breyer; photos (L)

Hows it feel knowing a racist will be nominated to the supreme court this week?



Answer: I am terribly saddened because Sotomayor is an obvious racist, and her OVERTURNED decision by the Supreme Court (as it stands this moment) on the issue of the Firemen from a city in Florida of White and Hispanic races who were not promoted because they were NOT black, but passed the test, PROVES she is a racist, since she decided on behalf of the city to throw out the test scores, not promoting anyone, and giving the city the right to be racist against it's LIFESAVERS because their skin wasn't dark enough, but I am not surprised since I am not deceived by pretty words the Liberals always use to cover up their UGLY racism usually upon whites with their UNFAIR Affirmative Action, and I realize Liberal politicians are racist against minorities by constantly telling them they cannot achieve without government giving them MORE opportunity by taking EARNED credit away from a more skilled, and or intelligent WHITE person.
I am finally surprised on one point though. That they are so BLATANT about their racism in this issue with Sotomayor, AND that Liberal citizens so OBVIOUSLY don't care, CLEARLY PROVING themselves racist. They hide from nothing anymore. It seems they wish to remain Slave Owners, and the minorities as a group seem SNOWED enough to let them!

TRAGIC!
Category: Politics

A Majority of One

We are all living now in Sandra Day OConnors America. Take almost any of the most divisive questions of American life, and Justice OConnor either has decided it or is about to decide it on our behalf. The Supreme Court may tell us soon whether affirmative action in public universities is permissible, and if it does, OConnor is likely to cast - Jeffrey Rosen article on Sandra Day OConnor as justice who decides which way Supreme Court goes in many major cases and as courts lead champion of federalism: the return of power from federal government to states; says she takes distinctive approach to role as swing vote, joining majority and then writing concurring opinion that drain her colleagues reasoning of its more general implications and preserve her ability to change her mind in future; says she has recently joined conservative colleagues on court in determination to reserve for themselves exclusive authority to decide what counts as illegal and impermissible in America; says her highhanded attitude toward Congress, state courts and Aemrican people reached its height in Bush v Gore, decision that typifies her personalized jurisprudence; notes speculation that OConnor might be courts next chief justice and suggests that her vision of courts role in American life may not really be appropriate today; photos (L) - Jeffrey Rosen is an associate professor at George Washington University Law School and the legal affairs editor of The New Republic. He writes frequently for The Times Magazine on the law. - By Jeffrey Rosen

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The Supreme Court's decision to apply a tough legal standard on college affirmative action policies on Monday was hailed as a win by opposing sides, though supporters acknowledged it meant they'd have to go farther to keep such guidelines in ... Though supporters were thrilled by that, Ifill noted: “We also recognize that the court has put a wrinkle into the analysis that courts will have to use when they assess whether a university's plan meets constitutional muster.”.

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What affect will the Affirmative Action?

case decided by the Supreme Court today have in the long run? Will Sotomayors judgment be looked at a little more closely?

Does anyone thing that the White/Hispanic Firefighters should not have been promoted and the jobs given to Blacks, as per the cities Affirmative Action Program called for?

Answer: Obviously the Supreme Court found New Haven's Program violated federal statue. City council was wrong in their decision that because no black person had passed the exam, no one would get promoted. What they thought was a good idea turned into a bigger mess and rightfully so. Just because one race didn't pass the exam that means no one can be promoted? Where is the justice or righteousness in that?

This is a prime example why Affirmative Action didn't work in the United States and I am sure glad it is gone.

And, no the decision unfortunately will not effect Judge Stotmayor's accession to the Supreme Court.



Edit: Rebel - this is the second post I have noticed from you that is well responded. How you doing? ;)


Edit II: Similar complaint about the heat and its only just starting. I welcome winter the sooner the better (is cold blooded creature).
Category: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered

Meet the Supremes

THE NINE Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court. By Jeffrey Toobin. Illustrated. 369 pp. Doubleday. $27.95. The farewell ceremony for Chief Justice William Rehnquist at the United States Supreme Court in September 2005 offers the kind of monumental tracking shot authors adore. Neatly and conveniently arrayed that day on the marble steps - David Margolick reviews book The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin; drawing (M) - David Margolick is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and the author of Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink. He once covered legal affairs for The Times. - By DAVID MARGOLICK

Can anyone out there who opposes Sotomayors nomination cite specific decisions of hers that you disagree with?

Im not saying I support her nomination at this early stage, but give me substantial disqualifications, not just random quotes or "affirmative action" accusations.

Thanks.
All good answers so far. Im a little surprised no one has brought up this one: Didden v. Village of Port Chester, 173 Fed.Appx. 93, C.A.2 (N.Y.), 2006.

It builds on the Kelo case, which basically said a city or municipality could confiscate your private property for any purpose whatsoever, including redistributing wealth to other private parties. Its a scary concept, and Sotomayor did nothing to stop this practice.

Answer: I was disappointed that she sided with New Haven. In this case, a fire department didn't promote any firefighters because minorities didn't do well on the test. Now my opinion might change if I saw a copy of the test, but I think it would be difficult to design a test that made it more difficult for minorities to pass (I don't believe minorities are inferior, at all).

I wasn't pleased that she supported the right to sue investment firms in state rather than federal court. The reasoning is because the laws are different in each state, and some sleazy lawyers like to shop around for a state where they can have their way with the law. If a person resides in one state, and the investment firm in another, and the corporate headquarters in yet another, this would allow the person to sue in any one of those state's courts, according to those state's laws.

And their are some others. Basically, I find her rulings in the cases that the supreme court overruled her on disturbing. I don't care for how her remarks taken out of context, and I kind of agree with what she said in those remarks. The cases that were overturned represent an incredibly small number of her rulings too, so they aren't representative of how she is as a judge. Some of her rulings I really agree with, and they show neutrality in her judgments.

Here's a list of some things, including the ones I mentioned:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/26/sotomayor.resume/?iref=hpmostpop
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