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MORNING GLORY: President Trump has just issued an enormously consequential executive order

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.

OnTuesday,PresidentDonaldTrumpissuedanexecutiveorderrevokingPresidentLyndonBainesJohnson’sExecutiveOrder11246fromSeptemberof1965(andmanyothersimilarordersandmemorandafromoverthedecadessince).Trump’sneworderistruetotheCivilRightsActof1964andthe14thAmendment.Trump’sordercanbereadhere.  ThehorribleturntakenbyJohnsontowards“countingbyrace,”wasadeepone,aturnextendedbytheSupremeCourtoftheUnitedStates(SCOTUS)inthe1978 Bakke decisionandonlyfinallyandfullyrepudiatedbySCOTUSinrecentyearsisnowfederalpolicythatcanbeenforcedbytheCivilRightsDivisionatDOJandtheOfficeofCivilRightsatDepartmentofEducation.  Thisisneithera“liberal”nora“conservative”action.ItistheConstitutionspeaking,astheConstitutionwasamendedtoeradicatethegreatstainofslaveryafterthelongandbloodyCivilWar. TRUMPTARGETSCULTUREWARLIGHTNINGRODSINEARLYSLA