Morning glory: President Trump has put the federal government back on the constitutional path
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On Tuesday, President Donald Trump issued an executive order revoking President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s Executive Order 11246 from September 1965 (and many other similar orders and memos over the decades). Trump’s new order It is true of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the 14th Amendment. Trump’s order can be read. over here.
Johnson’s horrific turn to “race counting” was profound, extended by the United States Supreme Court (Scots) in the 1978 Bucke decision, and finally and outright rejected by SCOTUS in recent years. Federal policy that can be implemented by the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ and the Education Division of the Office of Civil Rights.
This is not a “liberal” or “conservative” act. After a long and bloody civil war, the Constitution was amended to remove the great stain of slavery.
Trump has targeted culture war lightning rods early in executive orders.
The 14th Amendment’s Road to Mainstream Public Interpretation The 14th Amendment took until Tuesday to complete, beginning in 1868 when it was ratified: Citizens of the United States may not be punished or rewarded for any intransigent behavior or rewards. religious belief. Any institution established long before the ratification of the Constitution, such as Harvard College or the local convenience store, cannot legally violate this first principle of the 14th Amendment.
Do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity or religious beliefs. time.
The 19th century SCOTUS took a drastic turn with the 14th Amendment and the Plessy decision, and the Supreme Court corrected itself in 1954’s Brown v. Board of Education in the slaughterhouse cases. The Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Johnson didn’t understand what he was starting, but over the past 20 years, discrimination against people of faith along with “race, gender, sexual orientation” has become entrenched in government and elite institutions.
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh arrive for the inauguration ceremony before Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th President of the United States on January 20 in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. (Saul Loeb // Pool via REUTERS)
The Supreme Court has been in limbo for almost 50 years, and I hope that Abraham Lincoln, Dr. Martin Luther King, and most recently Chief Justice John Roberts will irrevocably settle the 2007 case of parents involved in community schools. “The way to end racial discrimination is to end racial discrimination,” Seattle School District 1 wrote.
Until President Trump was appointed and the United States Senate confirmed three new justices during Trump’s first term, the Chief Justice did not have enough starting allies on the Supreme Court to inject this sound constitutional law into every fiber of the government. Now the main majority is six votes strong.
Trump’s executive order could be challenged. I hope so.
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The Supreme Court, built in part by President Trump, has in recent years upheld the original meaning of the 14th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Any institution will challenge this new EO and find it unconstitutional.
Bravo to the many hands he created and especially the one he signed for President Trump.
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