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On Tuesday, President Donald Trump issued an executive order revoking President Lyndon Baines Johnson's September 1965 Executive Order 11246 (and many other similar orders and memoranda over the decades since). Trump's new order is faithful to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the 14th Amendment. Read President Trump's orders here.
The terrible turn Johnson took toward “racial counting” is profound, a turn expanded by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) in the 1978 Bakke decision, and ultimately and comprehensively rejected by SCOTUS. It was only in recent years that it was rejected. Federal policy enforced by the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division and the Department of Education's Civil Rights Division.
This is neither a “liberal” nor a “conservative” action. That's what the Constitution says, because it was amended after a long and bloody Civil War to eradicate the great stain of slavery.
Trump targets culture war lightning rod in early executive order
The path to the original public meaning of the 14th Amendment was a journey that began in 1868, when the 14th Amendment was ratified, and ended Tuesday. U.S. citizens cannot be fined or awarded based on any immutable characteristic. religious beliefs. No institution, including Harvard University, which was founded long before the Constitution was ratified, or your local convenience store, can legally violate this first principle of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, or religious beliefs. period.
SCOTUS in the 19th century took a frightening turn in the Slaughterhouse Case, which confused the interpretation of the 14th Amendment, followed by Plessy and the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education. Congress enshrined the above core principles in the Constitution. Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Mr Johnson didn't realize what he was starting, but over the past two decades “counting by race, gender and sexual orientation” has become deeply entrenched in governments and elite institutions, along with discrimination against people of hardship and faith. It took root.
Chief Justice John Roberts and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh attend the inauguration ceremony before Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th President of the United States in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC, on January 20. has arrived. (Saul Loeb // Poole, via Reuters)
After nearly 50 years, the Supreme Court finally heard Abraham Lincoln, Dr. Martin Luther King, and, most recently, Chief Justice John Roberts concisely and eloquently in the 2007 community school parent case. Until what has been said is settled, and I hope it is irreversibly settled. “The way to end discrimination based on race is to stop discriminating based on race,” Seattle School District No. 1 wrote. Race. ”
Until the three new justices nominated by President Trump and confirmed by the U.S. Senate during President Trump's first term, the Chief Justice will ensure that this fundamental principle of sound constitutional law applies to every level of government, There were not enough originalist allies on the Supreme Court to infiltrate the section. The originalist majority now stands at a solid 6 votes.
President Trump's executive order may be challenged. I hope so.
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The Supreme Court, created with the help of President Trump, has already affirmed the original meaning of the 14th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in recent years. If any agency objects to this new EO, they will find it to be on the strongest constitutional grounds.
Bravo to the many people who wrote this document and especially to President Trump who signed it.
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