Posted on 04/14/2023 8:02:06 PM PDT by lowbridge
An Obama-appointed federal judge ordered two Missouri teachers opposing a school district's mandatory diversity training to shell out over $300,000 in legal fees.
Teachers opposed the training that allegedly contained content forcing them to place themselves on an "oppression matrix." The material also allegedly called for socio-economic changes and asked teachers to share information they wished to keep private.
Brooke Henderson was one of the two fighting back against the training she said encouraged her to believe that America is systemically racist.
"If we believed in a colorblind America, [it told us] that we are White supremacists, and it really just felt like there was no hope and that the wheels had come off the bus of what our job as educators was," she said.
Henderson, who said she has taught for over 20 years, said the training was district-wide, impacting employees ranging from bus drivers to cafeteria workers, custodial crew members, teachers and everyone else employed in the district.
Federal district judge Douglas Harpool, who presided over the case, awarded $313,000 in attorney fees to the school district, arguing the district deserved to be compensated for being forced to defend against the case.
"It's absolutely excessive," said Southeastern Legal Foundation general counsel Kimberly Hermann, who represented the plaintiffs.
"The point of it is to chill speech. This is a First Amendment case in the first place where our clients were required to attest and affirm to ideas they just simply don't believe in. They believe that America should be colorblind. They believe that they should not have to look at the color of the student's skin, and that's all that they were fighting for."
The plaintiffs, according to Hermann, sought only $1 in damages and were instead solely focused on getting a judge to declare the training unconstitutional.
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Mark Douglas "Doug" Harpool (born June 7, 1956) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri. He also has been a Democratic American politician, and a former member of the Missouri House of Representatives from southwest Missouri's 134th district. He served five terms from January 5, 1983 to January 6, 1993.
He's a Lefty stooge who is mandating a partisan financial lynching.
Will be tossed on appeal
Every federal court packed with grinning Lefty stooges, bringing the gavel down like BenLurkin's boot meme.
“Federal district judge...”
It will surely get appealed beyond this judge, and hopefully at some point it will get in front of a non-insane judge.
I’m assuming this verdict will be appealed and the judgment will be reversed. However, that will probably not be for another couple years and hundreds of thousands in dollars in fees. The process and procedure IS the punishment!
Fascism from the left
Another racist, democrat judge. There is no rule of law at this point. Judges just make political and activist decisions only.
I would go wearing earbuds listening to music. If they wanted personal info, I would make something up
Begin impeachment proceedings immediately. Outrageous.
Judge is just making money for the appeal lawyers. What are they supposed to do, sell their houses? Bastard.
LAWFARE...
We’ll have to secure our elections first.
Or we have to secure our country first.
With the Spirit of Samuel Adams.
There is no such thing as a secure election.
And there never will be with the Marxists in State power.
We need to scare them back into the snake holes from which they emerged.
The battles have already begun.
Judge must be punished hard and Obama should be shamed.
To WHOM??
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