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States attorneys now opposing fed's opposition to criminal background checks for new hires
FoxNews ^ | July 27, 2013 | FoxNews

Posted on 07/27/2013 7:09:05 PM PDT by Innovative

Attorneys general across the country are fighting back against new Obama administration guidelines on businesses using criminal background checks for job applicants and two federal lawsuits that followed, calling both "a quintessential example of gross federal overreach."

The nine attorneys general sent the letter Wednesday to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which in April 2012 voted in favor of the new guidelines that warn such checks can discriminate against African-Americans because they being are arrested at a disproportionate rate compared to the rest of the U.S. population.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: backgroundchecks; benghazi; carbontax; crime; energy; fastandfurious; impeachnow; irs; jobs; kenyanbornmuzzie; obama; opec
The government is exercising more and more control over private businesses using any and all excuses.
1 posted on 07/27/2013 7:09:05 PM PDT by Innovative
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What’s the big deal. Criminals are running the executive branch of the government already.

Mark


2 posted on 07/27/2013 7:17:21 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: Innovative

Invasion of privacy is only ok when the Federal Government does it.


3 posted on 07/27/2013 7:18:59 PM PDT by Bayard
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To: Innovative
...such checks can discriminate against African-Americans because they being are arrested at a disproportionate rate compared to the rest of the U.S. population.

In Washington, D.C., that's regarded as a perfectly sensible reason to throw out the rule of law.

The feral government has declared its independence from us, the people. I believe the time is at hand to let it go its own vile way.

4 posted on 07/27/2013 7:29:35 PM PDT by Standing Wolf
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To: Innovative
simply ask for references... and CHECK THEM OUT! bad/no ref, NO JOB!!!
5 posted on 07/27/2013 7:41:32 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Innovative

they are doing a disproortionate amount of crime. there is no racism in actually arresting criminals.


6 posted on 07/27/2013 7:46:27 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks Innovative.
...fighting back against new Obama administration guidelines on businesses using criminal background checks for job applicants and two federal lawsuits that followed, calling both "a quintessential example of gross federal overreach."

7 posted on 07/27/2013 7:59:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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To: Innovative

Horrible. This administration is more racist than George Wallace.


8 posted on 07/27/2013 8:06:52 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: MrB
...new guidelines that warn such checks can discriminate against African-Americans because they being are arrested at a disproportionate rate compared to the rest of the U.S. population.

Maybe blacks should consider committing fewer rapes, robberies, and beatings...

9 posted on 07/27/2013 8:26:48 PM PDT by GOPJ (Democrat dream: An America for everyone but Americans... freeper molson209)
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To: GOPJ

> ...new guidelines that warn such checks can discriminate against African-Americans because they being are arrested at a disproportionate rate compared to the rest of the U.S. population.

Maybe blacks should consider committing fewer rapes, robberies, and beatings...

...and take away one of their cheap sources of entertainment? And don’t you know that its not because they’re committing more crimes; its because the white man is targeting them.../s


10 posted on 07/27/2013 8:55:07 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Innovative

Who covers liability for a business who hires a felon, Holder?

What a mess.


11 posted on 07/27/2013 9:55:38 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Innovative
http://www.freep.com/article/20130724/NEWS05/307240114/Suspect-arrested-in-murders-at-Family-Dollar-store-in-Dearbor

Wonder if Dollar General was forced to hire this "gentleman" under these directives?

I'm sure that both victims being White is just a coincidence.

Appears that he did a year for a home invasion and rape.

12 posted on 07/27/2013 10:57:25 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux)
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To: SunkenCiv
So a few unnamed blacks at the EEOC with huge chips on their shoulders get to write the law and force employers and employees across the country to take tremendous, personal risks.

This isn't republican government.

Is there any doubt the institutions which caused this mess and others will not call for reforms?

It is time to correct the progressive mistakes than began a hundred years ago.

If we are to possibly reclaim our freedoms, the people and states must demand an Article V amendment convention. Start with repeal of the 17th Amendment and go from there.

13 posted on 07/28/2013 2:05:16 AM PDT by Jacquerie (To restore the 10th Amendment, repeal the 17th.)
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To: Jacquerie

These changes are not rooted in the progressive movement, they’re rooted in the interminable FDR administrations, which brought the first wave of Marxists and Stalinists into a newly vastly expanded bureaucratic state. FDR’s inability to walk or stand without crutches or help was suppressed by the first generation of partisan media shills.

The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World
James Burnham
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/james_burnham/
http://archive.org/details/JamesBurnhamAndTheManagerialRevolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Thoughts_on_James_Burnham#Background


14 posted on 07/28/2013 2:37:23 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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To: Innovative

We are getting a Mugabe-Centric gov’t in DC run by affirmative action idiots Obama and Holder


15 posted on 07/28/2013 2:41:10 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: SunkenCiv

The progressive amendments enabled FDR. Without them, no New Deal, no Great Society, no fundamental transformation.


16 posted on 07/28/2013 4:10:27 AM PDT by Jacquerie (To restore the 10th Amendment, repeal the 17th.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

My husband and I hired an ex-con. He was a tall, handsome, black fellow who thought nothing of using our
company cell phone, company truck, and gas credit card for his own personal business.

In addition, he was haughty, rude, and uncooperative.

When we got the bills and compared them to those of our former driver, we told his PO and fired him.

I know that one man does not statistics make, but we were definitely “once bitten, twice shy.”

No one called us for a reference. If he applied somewhere else, he was smart enough to leave us off his résumé.


17 posted on 07/28/2013 6:36:10 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: jsanders2001

I’ll link you to something that proves you’re right...


18 posted on 07/28/2013 7:38:58 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrat dream: An America for everyone but Americans... freeper molson209)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Horrible. This administration is more racist than George Wallace.

Although I am no fan of George Wallace I must observe that George Wallace was open and honest about his racism. Obama is not open, is not honest and Obama is a racist but denies it.

19 posted on 07/28/2013 7:48:38 AM PDT by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist. THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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