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On Tuesday, President Donald Trump issued an government order revoking President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s Govt Order 11246 from September of 1965 (and lots of different comparable orders and memoranda from over the many years since). Trump’s new order is true to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the 14th Modification. Trump’s order will be learn here.
The horrible flip taken by Johnson in the direction of “counting by race,” was a deep one, a flip prolonged by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) within the 1978 Bakke resolution and solely lastly and absolutely repudiated by SCOTUS in recent times is now federal coverage that may be enforced by the Civil Rights Division at DOJ and the Workplace of Civil Rights at Division of Training.
That is neither a “liberal” nor a “conservative” motion. It’s the Structure talking, because the Structure was amended to eradicate the good stain of slavery after the lengthy and bloody Civil Conflict.
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The trail to the unique public which means of the 14th Modification has taken from 1868, when the 14th Modification was ratified, till Tuesday to finish: Residents of america might not have penalties inflicted upon them or awards given them primarily based on any immutable attribute or non secular perception. No establishment, from Harvard School, based lengthy earlier than the Structure was ratified, or the native comfort retailer, might lawfully violate this primary precept of the 14th Modification.
Don’t discriminate on the premise of race, gender, ethnicity or non secular perception. Interval.
The nineteenth century SCOTUS took a horrible flip within the Slaughterhouse Instances which mangled the interpretation of the 14th Modification after which the Plessy resolution and the Supreme Court docket righted itself in Brown v. Board of Training in 1954. The Congress enshrined the core precept above within the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Johnson didn’t perceive what he launched, however prior to now 20 years, “counting by race, gender, sexual orientation,” together with hardships and discrimination towards individuals of religion have taken deep root in authorities and elite establishments.
US Supreme Court docket Chief Justice John Roberts and Supreme Court docket Justice Brett Kavanaugh arrive for the inauguration ceremony earlier than Donald Trump is sworn in because the forty seventh US President within the US Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C., on January 20. (Saul Loeb//Pool through REUTERS)
The Supreme Court docket has flailed for nearly 50 years to lastly, and I hope irreversibly, choose what Abraham Lincoln, Dr. Martin Luther King and most just lately Chief Justice John Roberts has concisely and eloquently said within the 2007 case Mother and father Concerned in Group Colleges v. Seattle Faculty District No. 1 when he wrote, “The best way to cease discrimination on the premise of race is to cease discriminating on the premise of race.”
The chief justice lacked enough originalist allies on the very best courtroom to infuse this bedrock principal of sound constitutional regulation into each fiber of presidency at each stage of presidency till President Trump nominated and america Senate confirmed three new justices throughout Trump’s first time period. Now the originalist majority is a stable six votes.
Trump’s government order could also be challenged. I hope it’s.
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The Supreme Court docket, constructed partially by President Trump, has already affirmed the unique which means of the 14th Modification and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in recent times. Let any establishment problem this new EO and they’ll uncover it’s on the firmest of constitutional grounds.
Bravo to the numerous palms that crafted it and particularly to President Trump who signed it.
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