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Posted on 12/17/2021 12:51:26 PM PST by Jacquerie
When the Florida Supreme Court took the step of deciding – with no traditional input from the Florida Bar – to penalize a push for diversity in lawyers’ refresher courses, the outcry echoed from Tallahassee to Key West.
The Florida Supreme Court “isn’t this evil entity that is out to ensure that CLE courses continue to be taught by white men,” law school dean Jose R. “Beto” Juarez Jr. said at the time. “I know that is not what the court will intend here.”
On Thursday the court disappointed Juarez and, no doubt, many others when it ruled 6-1 to make only a couple of cosmetic changes to the new rule but otherwise keep it intact.
The decision is a broadside against the American Bar Association, originator of the diversity rule. Now Florida lawyers who choose ABA courses to fulfill their CLE requirements will forfeit credits for taking them.
“We measured the policy against ‘basic American principles of nondiscrimination,’ and we acted under our general authority to set the rules that govern The Florida Bar,” the unsigned majority opinion states.
“The rule amendment reflects this Court’s policy decision to disassociate The Florida Bar’s CLE infrastructure from program sponsors that use discriminatory quota policies like the one at issue,” it says.
What the sponsors, in this instance the Florida Bar’s Business Law Section, called diversity, the court deemed a quota. “The Section’s policy requires a minimum percentage of ‘diverse’ CLE program panelists. In doing so, the policy necessarily caps the allowable percentage of non-diverse panelists,” the court explained.
“Non-diverse” panelists are white males. This line of reasoning evokes the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court decision in University of California v. Bakke, which upheld the principle of affirmative action but disallowed some specific racial quotas.
(Excerpt) Read more at floridabulldog.org ...
“Diversity” is Marxist speak for racist indoctrinattion. It a dispicable attempt to foste a hyoer racial political agenda and flys directly in the face of the prinicplas of a color blind US legal system.
Forced Diversity is anti-white. No whites need apply. Hate yourself for being white. Just die!
Forced diversity is evil and should be fought tooth and nail. Crushed and utter destroyed.
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ABA required diversity for their speakers in programs. It was a quota as far as I could tell.
The American Bar Association is, and has been for years, a Marxist, anti-American hate organization. Good to see it get smacked down.
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“ABA required diversity for their speakers in programs. It was a quota as far as I could tell.”
I’ve written fourteen novels, none published but several on Amazon. I was frustrated by feedback concerning my need for diverse characters, LGBT characters and themes, etc. Trying to incorporate what was wanted just didn’t fly with creativity or plotting. And, what so few understand is, characters other than the main one are typically played either to the stereotype or against it. The priest is either super good or incredibly evil. So, unless the main character is LGBTQ he’ll be a stereotype. Otherwise, how is anyone going to know what he is in the brief places where he appears? Everything...everything you write must either move the plot forward or add to characterization. Anything else is just boring pontification. Diversity my posterior.
Good job, Florida SC.
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