Outrageous Judicial Activism Overturns Michigan’s Racial Preferences Ban

By: Curt Levey (Diary)  |  July 1st at 10:05 PM  | 

In one of the most outrageous examples of judicial activism ever seen, a 3-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has struck down the voter-approved Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (MCRI), which bans racial and gender preferences in Michigan’s public employment, education and contracting. In today’s 2-1 decision, two Clinton appointees came to the startling conclusion that MCRI violates the U.S. | Read More »

anti-Tea Party cartoon reveals ignorance

By: Curt Levey (Diary)  |  July 21st at 02:07 PM  | 

In today’s Washington Post, cartoonist Tom Toles argues that the tea party movement reveals itself to be racist by “want[ing] to go back to the Constitution as it was written,” despite the document’s acquiescence in the continuation of slavery. Toles’s cartoon is a particularly hateful variant of a misleading, but all too common, argument that tries to vilify critics of a “living Constitution” and justify | Read More »