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prb · 08-21-2003, 12:31 PM

There they go again -- those wacky Supremes: Protecting the rights of States to discriminate under the banner of "States Rights." We love this in the South. It's why we now vote Republican. The Garrett case was a 5 to 4 decision brought to us by the same justices who stopped the Florida recount and put Dubya in the White House: Rehnquist, Thomas, Scalia, Kennedy and O'Conner. According to them, State discrimination against the disabled was forbidden only if Congress could show that "irrational" discrimination was taking place and, in the 5 justices' view, "a half dozen" cases of discrimination was insufficient proof of a need to enforce the law (the ADA) against the States. The 4 dissenting justices , however, pointed out that a congressional task force had shown hundreds of examples of State discrimination against the disabled in areas such as employment, access to public buildings, public transportation and on and on. Who was telling the truth and using the truth to reach an honest and just decision: The 5 justices who took note of only a "half dozen" instances of State discrimination against the disabled or the 4 justices who say there were hundreds of cases of such discrimination found by the congressional task force? Well, the findings of a congressional task force are part of the public record, but the dissenters listed the findings by State as a footnote to the Garrett opinion -- TAKE THAT, you frikkin' Nazis! In reality, of course, nothing can embarrass the right wing faction of the Supreme Court . They have a legacy to leave and if they must tell lies to reach the ends they seek -- well, so be it. The case is: University of Alabama v. Garrett, 121 S. Ct. 955 (2001) <<<<<<<<<<//Rant over.

08-21-2003, 12:31 PM	#10 (permalink)
prb Psycho	There they go again -- those wacky Supremes: Protecting the rights of States to discriminate under the banner of "States Rights." We love this in the South. It's why we now vote Republican. The Garrett case was a 5 to 4 decision brought to us by the same justices who stopped the Florida recount and put Dubya in the White House: Rehnquist, Thomas, Scalia, Kennedy and O'Conner. According to them, State discrimination against the disabled was forbidden only if Congress could show that "irrational" discrimination was taking place and, in the 5 justices' view, "a half dozen" cases of discrimination was insufficient proof of a need to enforce the law (the ADA) against the States. The 4 dissenting justices , however, pointed out that a congressional task force had shown hundreds of examples of State discrimination against the disabled in areas such as employment, access to public buildings, public transportation and on and on. Who was telling the truth and using the truth to reach an honest and just decision: The 5 justices who took note of only a "half dozen" instances of State discrimination against the disabled or the 4 justices who say there were hundreds of cases of such discrimination found by the congressional task force? Well, the findings of a congressional task force are part of the public record, but the dissenters listed the findings by State as a footnote to the Garrett opinion -- TAKE THAT, you frikkin' Nazis! In reality, of course, nothing can embarrass the right wing faction of the Supreme Court . They have a legacy to leave and if they must tell lies to reach the ends they seek -- well, so be it. The case is: University of Alabama v. Garrett, 121 S. Ct. 955 (2001) <<<<<<<<<<//Rant over.