The Sixth Circuit has just struck down a civil rights initiative in Michigan. As Jon Adler notes, it’s likely to be overturned.
[Update a few minutes later]
Crazy commies. Here we have people expressing gratitude that a black cop-killer is being released, and should never have been imprisoned in the first place.
Though, I have to admit, in this case, I’m with them. And don’t forget — we’re racists.
Proposal 2 was a successful ballot initiative that provides that the state, including state educational institutions, may not “discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education or public contracting.” Judge Cole, joined by Judge Daughtrey, held that the proposal is unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause.
So, in order to provide equal protection for everyone, we have to discriminate against some people, particularly white males and Asians. Do I have that right?
Paging Mr. Orwell.
larry j,
some pigs ARE more equal and need to be slapped out of schoo to make way for less equal pigsl!
Military-style raids should lose the default ‘immune from prosecution’ stance.
“I was just following orders” isn’t a sufficient defense in the military – it shouldn’t be in the police forces either.
Beyond the personal-vesting in making absolutely sure their hitting the right house (or whatever), it also would also shift the entire concept to ‘honest last-resort’.