Posted on 11/04/2014 11:48:07 AM PST by jazusamo
A federal judge overturned the Obama administration’s “desperation” move to try to find more ways to prove discrimination in housing in a decision Monday that also delivered a searing rebuke to Thomas Perez, a Cabinet official whom liberals are pushing to be the next attorney general.
Judge Richard J. Leon ruled that the administration cannot rely on “disparate impact” to judge discrimination, dealing a blow to civil rights groups that said the analytical tool gave them more room to file discrimination cases.
Potentially just as important for President Obama’s postelection moves was the rebuke Judge Leon delivered to Mr. Perez, whom he accused of gaming the legal system, timing cases and arranging a settlement in order to keep the Supreme Court from issuing a ruling that would have undercut the administration’s discrimination argument.
Judge Leon called that “particularly troubling.”
In his ruling, Judge Leon said the administration’s bid to establish disparate impact as a legitimate measure of discrimination showed “hutzpah (bordering on desperation).”
“This is yet another example of an administrative agency trying desperately to write into law that which Congress never intended to sanction,” Judge Leon wrote in a scorching opinion that described Obama administration attorneys’ arguments as “nothing less than an artful misinterpretation” of the law.
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The commie ‘RATS will now just go find one of their judges.
I’m gonna sign up for a discrimination lawsuit. I want to live in the exclusive apartment down the street, but they won’t let me because I cannot afford to. THAT’s got to qualify as discrimination in Obamaworld.
But wait. I’m white.
Good ruling, your honor...
Wow, now THAT’S a brave Judge.
Hope he enjoys his lifetime of IRS audits.
Bump
A real rebuke would be a contempt citation followed by a fine and jail time.
Hispanic Judge - OUCH to Perez =]
"Analytical tool" indeed. "Excuse" is more like it, and it certainly does provide excuses to file cases whenever they please.
It's very rare for there to be NO variation across a sample space of any statistical variable. So, crudely used, disparate impact lets the DOJ look at almost any situation, and pick the ones that have variations in the way they like to create court cases which embed white discrimination in case law as precedent for years to come.
Okay, I just couldn't get past my laughter at "disparate impact" being described as an "analytical tool". There is nothing analytical about it, it is a race hustling tool used to make white people get nervous and give the black race hustlers what they want in hopes they go away.
BUMP to you both.
I was just going to say that, along with a Formal Complaint to the BAR Association.
This is a HUGE setback. Holder, Obama, and the Communists in Washington have been pushing this disparate impact approach with a vengeance. if they won, they would have a huge hammer to beat lenders with mercilessly to make bad loans to designated preferrede groups, like blacks and Hispanics and others without the credit standing to get a loan.
Exactly, lets hope they don’t get lib judges in an appeal to reverse it.
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