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  • Clarence Thomas attacked his colleagues for saving a law aimed at desegregating America

    06/25/2015 9:44:03 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 35 replies
    Business Insider ^ | 06/25/2015 | Erin Fuchs
    The Supreme Court saved a law Thursday aimed at preventing housing discrimination, and Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a scathing dissent calling out his liberal colleagues for their "audacity." In a 5-4 decision on Thursday, the Supreme Court's majority found that the Fair Housing Act (FHA) prevents housing practices that unfairly impact minorities even if those practices are not intentionally discriminatory. Many cases brought under the FHA involve so-called disparate-impact claims, so a ruling against fair-housing advocates would have seriously hobbled the law. Thomas — the court's only African-American justice — wrote a separate dissent questioning the notion that the government...