Posted on 09/01/2009 10:32:13 AM PDT by balls
WASHINGTON — Seven months after taking office, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is reshaping the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division by pushing it back into some of the most important areas of American political life, including voting rights, housing, employment, bank lending practices and redistricting after the 2010 census.
As part of this shift, the Obama administration is planning a major revival of high-impact civil rights enforcement against policies, in areas ranging from housing to hiring, where statistics show that minorities fare disproportionately poorly. President George W. Bush’s appointees had discouraged such tactics, preferring to focus on individual cases in which there is evidence of intentional discrimination.
To bolster a unit that has been battered by heavy turnover and a scandal over politically tinged hiring under the Bush administration, the Obama White House has also proposed a hiring spree that would swell the ranks of several hundred civil rights lawyers with more than 50 additional lawyers, a significant increase for a relatively small but powerful division of the government.
The division is “getting back to doing what it has traditionally done,” Mr. Holder said in an interview. “But it’s really only a start. I think the wounds that were inflicted on this division were deep, and it will take some time for them to fully heal.”
Few agencies are more engaged in the nation’s social and cultural debates than the Civil Rights Division, which was founded in 1957 to enforce anti-discrimination laws.
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Unless your a black panther intimidating voters.
IOW, full-bore quota-mongering. Law enforcement by equality of outcome, not equality of opportunity.
The list, ping
How dare they focus on cases with actual evidence! Don't they know the important cases are when some people feel slighted and need billions of dollars to make the feeling go away.
“Recharge Civil Rights Enforcement”
Translation: “Pick A Fight With White America”
“The agency’s critics cite...the recent blocking of a new rule requiring Georgia voters to prove their citizenship.”
So I guess SCOTUS rulings mean nothing to Holder. I’m pretty sure the court let this law stand. They couldn’t win in court so Holder decides to just go what he wants anyway. Bye-bye rule of law.
As a life-long bookkeeper- I am recommending the following:
Break up your company into very small separate parts, each with it’s own set of books. Make each part a division of the main ‘holding’ company.
Make your key people part owners of your company- and no longer “employees”.
Keep every part small, and don’t grow enough to trigger ‘mandatory hiring’ of anyone.
Having a fox or snake in the hen house won’t help your business at all.
On the Express train from Bad to Worse.
I’ve heard that much of its new case work is brought about by whites who are filing discrimination complaints, not sure about that though.
Yes, it is equality of outcome that the collectivists are after. To them, inequality of outcome implies inequality of opportunity. Otherwise, individual responsibility must be recognized.
So it is clear that my son has experienced discrimination by the NBA. I’m looking foward to my son being allocated a job playing basketball for tens of millions of dollars per year. The outcomes, the hiring practices, in the NBA are so unequal that something must be done.
So does this mean white people are going to have equal rights now after decades of being discriminated against?
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