Monday, December 04, 2006

Supreme Court Gets Touchy About Affirmative Action in Schools...

The bottom line here is the fact that liberals KNOW what mostly black or all black schools would be. Crimes are astronomically higher in minority neighborhoods, and since blacks do not get anywhere near the same familial education concerning, say, not stabbing or threatening to rape a teacher who would ask that they actually do some work, filling classrooms with them without ANY buffer would be disasterous.

It might even mean forcing black parents to have some control over the attitude and mores of their children.

"The issue presents a unique challenge to Louisville's schools, which spent 25 years under a court order to eliminate the effects of state-sponsored segregation. The Jefferson County, Ky., school board, which encompasses Louisville, decided to keep much of the court-ordered plan in place to prevent schools from re-segregating.

"What's constitutionally required one day is constitutionally prohibited the next day? That's very odd," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said, sentiments shared by her three liberal colleagues.

In a reversal of sorts, the court's liberals spoke in favor of local control of education policy.

Francis Mellen Jr., representing the Louisville schools, called the plan a success story that enjoys broad community support, including among parents of white and black students. Joshua McDonald, the child whose situation as a kindergarten student led to the lawsuit, was admitted to his school of choice beginning in the second grade.

Still, Kennedy wanted to know whether a school system that succeeds in freeing itself from court supervision can use a student's skin color as a basis for assignment."We've never said that. That takes us on a very perilous course," he said.

Kennedy's line of questioning indicated to some civil rights advocates at Monday's session that their side would have a hard time prevailing in these cases. "It's even more difficult to win these cases now and it was never easy," said Theodore Shaw, director counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund.Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito and Antonin Scalia also expressed concern about the school plans. Justice Clarence Thomas asked no questions, but he has consistently voted against racial preference plans.

Scalia derided the school systems' policies as a "whatever it takes" approach that improperly classifies people on the basis of race."

This is why it was a good thing to vote for Bush. Sure, he let us down time after time, but the people he appointed to the Supreme Court are at long last beginning to bring a semblance of sanity back to the law. This is also why it was a BAD thing to vote the liberals back into any office not called City Dog Catcher. Now Joannie Ginsberg can retire knowing full well that a Conservative Justice won't replace her.

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