The Supreme Court has already affirmed the original meaning of the 14th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Now the originalist majority is a solid six votes.
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OnTuesday,PresidentDonaldTrumpissuedanexecutiveorderrevokingPresidentLyndonBainesJohnson’sExecutiveOrder11246fromSeptemberof1965(andmanyothersimilarordersandmemorandafromoverthedecadessince).Trump’sneworderistruetotheCivilRightsActof1964andthe14thAmendment.Trump’sordercanbereadhere.
ThehorribleturntakenbyJohnsontowards“countingbyrace,”wasadeepone,aturnextendedbytheSupremeCourtoftheUnitedStates(SCOTUS)inthe1978 Bakke decisionandonlyfinallyandfullyrepudiatedbySCOTUSinrecentyearsisnowfederalpolicythatcanbeenforcedbytheCivilRightsDivisionatDOJandtheOfficeofCivilRightsatDepartmentofEducation.
Thisisneithera“liberal”nora“conservative”action.ItistheConstitutionspeaking,astheConstitutionwasamendedtoeradicatethegreatstainofslaveryafterthelongandbloodyCivilWar.
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