Posted on 11/19/2017 2:16:22 PM PST by reaganaut1
SOUTH THOMASTON, Me. — A former mayor of Poway, a small city in Southern California, wrote a column in August in his local newspaper with this headline: “A gun to my head.”
He was upset about how a state law had forced Poway to redo its voting districts so Latinos would have a better chance of winning elections.
Reading the piece on his computer 3,000 miles away, Edward Blum knew he had found his newest case.
Seeing one of his bêtes noires — racial gerrymandering — at work, Mr. Blum recruited the former mayor, Don Higginson, as a plaintiff, and on Oct. 4 filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the California Voting Rights Act.
Mr. Blum is not a lawyer. But he is a one-man legal factory with a growing record of finding plaintiffs who match his causes, winning big victories and trying above all to erase racial preferences from American life.
Mr. Blum, 65, has orchestrated more than two dozen lawsuits challenging affirmative action practices and voting rights laws across the country. He is behind two of the biggest such cases to reach the Supreme Court: one attacking consideration of race in admissions at the University of Texas, which he lost; the other contesting parts of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, widely considered one of this country’s most important pieces of civil rights legislation, which he won.
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The N.Y. Slimes must be slipping to allow this piece in their rag.
I think they’re trying to imply that the critics of Democrat gerrymandering are racists.
Unfortunately, Maryland is instructive. The Republicans, working with a black political group called the Fannie Lou Hamer PAC, presented a redistricting map that would have protected the ten two Republican House seats, while adding a minority seat in the Democrat areas.
Instead, the lefty politicians opted for a gerrymander just so they could take away the Republican seat in the Panhandle, while not extending the number of minority seats. And MD-3 is the most gerrymandered district in teh country, and MD-2 is ranked, I think, third.
Fabulous. Give Blum a prize. Better yet, send him some cash.
Affirmative Action is un-Constitutional. We didn’t start a nation so we could endure a government that spends its time discriminating against us in favor of the latest immigrant group trying to scam freebies in the name of some real or imagined slight.
If there was ever a group that had a claim it’s the descendants of slaves and no one else. We have now spent trillions on trying to pull them up and sidelined untold numbers in favor of them and all we have to show for it is the ChiCongo homicide rate. Pull the preferences and tell them they need to get with the program.
As for gerrymandered districts to put Mexicans in charge of Americans, they can pound sand. That’s war.
Keep pc at Harvard.
It is doing an excellent job of showing that the school no longer has standards.
(Although, having Kennedys there pretty much exposed that flaw years ago.)
As with most universities, STEM stands as pretty much the only group with standards.
Harvard law?
Dorkbama the Muslim quota baby. Law grad.
Bwahahahahahahahah.
"bêtes noires" - mid 19th century: French, literally ‘black beast.’
Is the NYT allowed to print this racist epithet? Everyone KNOWS this is just a 'dog whistle' for the 'N-word', right?
/s
The Hispanics in Poway are mostly here illegally.
Why should they count for districts???
This punk congressman Delaney from the gerrymandered MD-6, introduced a bill under the guise of getting rid of gerrymandering by going to the California way of having open primaries and allowing the top two vote getters to compete for the seat.
Yeah, he’s looking out for voters, isn’t he?
He needs to be tarred and feathered. On the other hand, it shows the ignorance of the MD electorate.
Sorry, here’s the link
Why should they count for districts???
Because the local election officials plan to let them vote?
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