Posted on 01/01/2024 7:31:43 PM PST by Libloather
A Maryland county claims under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, it can create a school board seat that only illegal immigrants can vote for, according to reports.
The Washington Times reported that Howard County officials appeared before a federal court of appeals last month and defended its current process of having a school board seat occupied by a student, in which only public school students are allowed to vote for.
Some Howard County residents are challenging the practice on the basis of it being unconstitutional discrimination in voting, particularly against the county general electorate and students at religious schools who cannot vote for the student seat.
An attorney for the challengers, Michael Smith, told the publication it is a "zero-sum game." He explained that empowering students to choose one of the eight school board members takes away power from the general electorate.
"You have 12.5% of the voting authority of that board that’s removed from registered voters," Smith said.
Eight counties in Maryland have a student serving on their respective board of education. In Howard County, officials argue the selection of a student is more of an appointment because, despite students casting a vote for their student candidate of choice, the board and school officials narrow down the candidates.
A county attorney, Amy Marshak, explained to the publication that the election is not just a popularity contest.
"While students do vote, they do it as part of a very limited process," she said.
The case has been through several courts at this point.
A lower court sided with the county and determined the process violates the First Amendment religious rights and 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause of those students who are shut out of voting.
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No Taxation without Representation has now become
No Subsidization without Representation
Just Wow!
Hmmm...
Considering the pathetically educationally-incompetent schools in Maryland, it doesn’t hurt the schools, K-college, (currently run by ardent communists) to let M-13 or the rest of the migrant-invader vermin have a seat on the school boards...
Maryland schools are merely political meeting locations where actual education has long since been replaced with communist indoctrination...
clown world
This country really needs to bring back flogging as a legal punishment for people like the Howard County officials who are tried and convicted of committing such heinous actions.
It's instructional to know that the German middle class initially accepted Hitler because they were FED UP with the Communist agitators sent from Moscow.
And what did those Communists call themselves? Antifa!
Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it.
We who DO study history are doomed to stand by watching helplessly while everyone else repeats it. *sigh*
Almost sounds like voter suppression or something.
I would make 3 observations over this story/trend:
1. From Hagerstown east (2/3’s of the state)...it’s like some 3rd-world country where about 70-percent of people can’t read beyond the 5th grade level or do basic math.
2. At some point, the black community will awaken to realize that both state and federal funding within Maryland...is filtering through some MS-13 gang ‘party’.
3. Logic would dictate that the language requirements have to be modified in some way...to force the teaching establishment to only speak Spanish, and create a state shortage of instructors.
and it’s not up for a vote? feh...
The one judge was asking a hypothetical about a seat that only illegals immigrants could vote on.
I don’t know if Maryland school boards set the tax levy and approve tax warrants. If they do, I believe that may be an Equal Protection issue when only certain classes of people would be allowed to vote for candidates for a specific seat.
If that student member is voting on anything that binds the school legally or votes to approve a schedule of claims (i.e. AP checks, etc), than I think the same thing holds - a possible Equal Protection issue because only a certain class of person can vote for that Board seat.
Seriously. That headline’s doing a lot of work trying to carry that article. And woe to the posters who commented without reading the article. The headline’s little short of clickbait
democracy always ends when the sheeple realize they can vote themselves more riches....
Yeah, just an awful headline.
I’ve no problem with student Board Members that sit in an advisory capacity. But it seems to me that the school district is playing with fire by having seats that are not subject to election by the whole of voters, especially if such Board seats can vote for any motion that binds the school district legally.
Excellent points!
clown world
The state that passed the “Rain Tax”...
I say No Representation Without Taxation!
End the madness.
Beautiful old Hagerstown itself was targeted as far back as the O'Malley administration to receive big ol' Obama helpings of muslims. Now it has a mosque, and most of the doctors in the big Meritus hospital reportedly are middle eastern adherents.
“This country really needs to bring back flogging”
I was saying that to my wife the other day.
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