Posted on 06/06/2018 4:27:10 PM PDT by RightGeek
A federal judge in Mississippi uses a fraud case as a vehicle for his social agenda.
On Friday in Mississippi, federal District Judge Carlton Reeves surprised government lawyers by ordering that the appointment of a receiver to recover assets for fraud victims should serve as a vehicle to promote diversity in the legal profession.
“It is indisputable that systematic oppression lies behind much of the judiciary’s lack of diversity,” wrote the Obama appointee in his order establishing a process to select a receiver to go after the money taken from investors. Judge Reeves added that “when given the opportunity, courts should take steps to increase their diversity. Justice is a search for truth. That search will fail if a court does not incorporate a wide array of experiences, facts, and perspectives into its decision making processes.”
As far as this column can tell, the case itself doesn’t have anything to do with racial or sexual discrimination. And while defrauded investors surely value the search for truth, they are also no doubt eager for a receiver to begin an immediate search for their money.
Last month Jackson, Mississippi’s Clarion Ledger newspaper reported that there are unfortunately many such victims:
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The defendant seems to have been at least as eager to defraud other white men as he was to victimize people in any other demographic category. The Clarion Ledger previously noted that among the victims was the state’s Republican U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker.
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Well, most people think the President should be popularly elected too.
Re: “Well, most people think the President should be popularly elected too.”
I take the position that - without the Electoral College - the Constitution would never have been ratified, and the “United States” of America would not exist.
It’s that too, but Africans have schemed and pushed it by screeching racism when it is simply a matter of the more qualified candidate lands the job. They cheat by forced diversity.
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