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US Court Strikes Down Michigan Affirmative Action Ban
WLNS.com ^ | Nov 15, 2012 | AP

Posted on 11/15/2012 1:10:12 PM PST by cripplecreek

AP story


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; constitution; lawsuit; preferences; racism; ruling
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To: alancarp

Quick... somebody appeal last week’s Presidential election with this group of robes... maybe it will be unconstitutional that Obama won.


21 posted on 11/15/2012 1:33:19 PM PST by alancarp (Democrats can't win on merits, so it's okay to cheat, steal, lie, break the law to "win" elections.)
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To: DwFry
Indeed. But where? There isn't anywhere left to go.

In the long term, human beings have only three strategies to cope with situations where groups in conflict must occupy the same geographic area:

1. Partition (violent or peaceful, often impossible and seldom successful).
2. Migration (always works but there must be somewhere to go).
3. Google "Hutus and Tutsies." 'Nuff said.

The Left imagines an infalliable fourth method that involves positive vibrations, rainbows, unicorns and Skittles, where everyone gets exactly what they want and still arrive home in time for supper. Sadly this scheme exists on in their fantasy world.

22 posted on 11/15/2012 1:36:08 PM PST by jboot (This isn't your father's America. Stay safe and keep your powder dry.)
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To: cripplecreek

So according to the court, *everybody* has a right to the tool known as “affirmative action?”

That is going to be news to the many associations and government-funded organs for the advancement of segregation.

So according to the court, *everybody* has a right to the tool known as “union elections?”

The UAW is going to be surprised to discover that *all of us* now have the right to vote in union elections. *SO COOL!* We don’t need to prove that we are citizens, and we don’t need any photo ID, and we don’t need to prove that we work - because the unions certainly have no requirement that voters are working!

Eureka!

We can *ALL* vote now in *ANY* political election!


23 posted on 11/15/2012 1:37:31 PM PST by First_Salute (May God save our democratic-republican government, from a government by judiciary.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
Like the judge who denied an Allen West motion in Palm Beach county said "the legislature, not courts, sets election procedures".. THEN WHY DO THE COURTS OVERTURN STATE VOTER I.D. LAWS, HUH?!!!!!!
24 posted on 11/15/2012 1:38:35 PM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (IMPEACH OBAMA)
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To: cripplecreek

At the crack of dawn?


25 posted on 11/15/2012 1:39:36 PM PST by Paladin2 (FR is STILL way too slow.)
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To: Paladin2

I think it officially opened at 7:20 am or thereabouts.


26 posted on 11/15/2012 1:41:06 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“.... is illegal because it presents an extraordinary burden to opponents who would have to mount their own long, expensive campaign through the ballot box to protect affirmative action.”

Hmmm...would think that should nullify a HUGE portion of Federal Regulatory Law...


27 posted on 11/15/2012 1:41:50 PM PST by mo (If you understand, no explanation is needed. If you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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To: Venturer

If Blacks be in charge, WE BE DA MINORTEE!!! WHERE’S MY OBAMAFONE!!


28 posted on 11/15/2012 1:42:38 PM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (IMPEACH OBAMA)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
Actually, the USSC flipped that on the vacant lot EPA wanted to say was a wetland ~ there EPA said it was too 'spensive to buy it but they could regulate the owners into the dirt with legal costs for cross suits.

Interesting to see this show up in an affirmative action case ~ but there you have it.

29 posted on 11/15/2012 1:43:17 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: cripplecreek
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Uncle-Tom House-Negro

30 posted on 11/15/2012 1:44:04 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: cripplecreek

The 21st Century George Wallaces say:

Discrimination now! Discrimination forever!


31 posted on 11/15/2012 1:44:22 PM PST by relictele
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To: Venturer

“...Zimbabwe here we come...”

Well those Michigan fellas came down here during the 1861-65 war and laid waste to Tennessee and much of the South but NOW they don’t like the way the wind is blowing. We could have told you what it was like to live under Black bureaucrats as we did during the so-called Reconstruction.

As former CSA General Jubal Early said “What a gentle institution slavery must have been to have so well prepared the Negro for the ballot box.”


32 posted on 11/15/2012 1:44:38 PM PST by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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To: mo

This poor suffering international group were the primary opponents of the ban.

http://www.bamn.com/


33 posted on 11/15/2012 1:45:09 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: The Sons of Liberty
Actually, the way federal regulations are written if you were born in a part of North America ever subject to the authority of the King of Spain, then you can claim to be an Hispanic.

Most folks making a claim of special privilege for hispanics really don't know their history since EVERYBODY born in the USA was born in a part of NA which was subject to the authority of the KIng of Spain.

While employed by the federal government I regularly put in appeals of my categorization when the boss would send in a form every year saying I was something else.

They'd ignore it.

One law suit by someone demanding privileges and being denied those privileges where Hispanic status is at issue would seem to be ripe.

34 posted on 11/15/2012 1:48:48 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: TexasCajun
"Uncle-Tom House-Negro "

Oreo Republican to boot.

35 posted on 11/15/2012 1:50:49 PM PST by Paladin2 (FR is STILL way too slow.)
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To: muawiyah

I always laughed at the native born (”white”) South Africans who would try to claim being an “African-American” here in the US. Drove the HR folks nutz. LOL


36 posted on 11/15/2012 1:53:20 PM PST by Paladin2 (FR is STILL way too slow.)
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To: cripplecreek

This has to be by affirmative action lawyer/judges. To have a mindset that says one part of society must have unburdened rights over another part of society with burden of need for voting is preposterous. Only from a distorted view of social justice could such a decision be made. If possible this needs to try for remedy higher up.


37 posted on 11/15/2012 1:56:03 PM PST by noinfringers2
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To: Paladin2

Note that Mrs. HorseFace Ketchup JF’nK is an African-American.


38 posted on 11/15/2012 1:56:03 PM PST by Paladin2 (FR is STILL way too slow.)
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To: noinfringers2

I’m already e-mailing tweeting it to every screaming conservative I can think of who has a radio show.

What an insane ruling. Losing at the ballot box is unfair?


39 posted on 11/15/2012 1:58:59 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek

How the hell can a US District oourt strike down a law that requires everyone be treated equally? (rhetorical question)


40 posted on 11/15/2012 2:00:45 PM PST by SC_Pete
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