Time to Revisit Affirmative Action, Quotas, and the 14th Amendment

The Provocateur ^ | 06/29/2009 | Mike Volpe

[fiscon1]

Buried in the decision yesterday in Ricci, was this pronouncement by Justice Scalia that this case

merely postpones the evil day" on which the court must decide "whether, or to what extent," existing disparate-impact law conflicts with the 14th Amendment guarantee

[junta]

As one conservative jurist wrote, the sociopathic left will end up having to write nazi like race laws to administer this AA boondoggle.

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Thought the purpose of the Supreme Court was to interpret the constitutionality of laws passed by Congress vis-a-vis the US Constitution?!?!

If that's their job, then they're unquestionable failures.

That clause quoted above should be simple enough even for a lefty Supreme to understand. So therefore they simply don't care about the constitution.

[wbones8765]

Wdoes that mean for the pedophile protection act?

[mbynack]

I remember when they passed the quota laws in the late 60's and 70's. The supreme court said that it was "a temporary program to correct historic wrongs." It was never supposed to last for 40 years and become institutional discrimination against white males.

I don't see it ever getting changed to "equal protection under the law." Any attempt to repeal these discriminatory laws will be met with "what about the children?" arguments.

I went to a public school and put myself through college without any programs other than the GI Bill. The same options were available to most Americans if they were willing to work for it. It really bugs me that blacks who attended the same High School get preferential treatment for scholarships and admission based solely on race.