Court Rebukes Biden's Racist Aid Policy [semi-satire]

Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 6 June 2021 | John Semmens

[John Semmens]

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals declared the Biden administration's race-based approach to distributing COVID-relief funds unconstitutional. The nearly $2 trillion American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) of 2021 was passed by Congress and implemented by the Biden Administration's Small Business administrator, Isabella Casillas Guzman. While the ARPA authorizes socially or economically disadvantaged businesses to be first in line for receiving aid, the Administration is illegally using race and sex as proxies for disadvantaged.

The Sixth Circuit ruled that "under the law 'disadvantaged' has specific criteria that must be met. First, the policy must target a specific episode of past discrimination. It cannot rest on a generalized assertion that there has been past discrimination in an entire industry. Second, there must be evidence of intentional discrimination in the past. Third, the government must have had a hand in the past discrimination it now seeks to remedy." Judge Amul Thapar explained "you cannot just assert that because a person is black or female that this person is socially disadvantaged. Explicit evidence of intentional discrimination is required."

President Biden called the ruling "ignorant and demented. Everyone knows that only a small percentage of blacks can figure out how to get a photo ID to vote. The overwhelming majority are totally befuddled. That's why so many of them have to resort to theft to meet their daily needs. If we have to prove explicit disadvantaged status for each person before we can dole out the funds spending will be slowed to a crawl." Biden is said to be torn between appealing to the Supreme Court or "just ignoring this erroneous ruling like President Jackson did in 1832."

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