Tuesday, September 30, 2008

THE MOST IMPORTANT REASON

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Obama Supreme Court Candidate Deval Patrick—Part 1

Deval Patrick has made his mark on the law in the field of racial preferences. Let’s take a look at his remarkable record:

Patrick as AAG aggressively pursued and defended racial preferences and racial line-drawing across the board—in employment, government contracting, and gerrymandering—even in the face of contrary Supreme Court rulings. Patrick was notorious for his tactics of intimidation and abuse. Even liberal senator Carol Moseley Braun (whose seat Barack Obama occupies) decried Patrick’s “Gestapo techniques” that “run roughshod over citizens, over communities.” (Washington Times, Oct. 1, 1996.)

When the city of Torrance, California stood up to Patrick’s charge—based entirely on statistical disparity from what quota-based hiring would yield—that it had committed employment discrimination, a Carter-appointed judge found Patrick’s case “frivolous, unreasonable, and without foundation” and awarded Torrance two million dollars in attorney’s fees.

Similar examples abound...

[this is the issue that will have repercussions lasting a generation and beyond - MUST READ > ]

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Judges: McCain’s strong suit

If John McCain falters down the stretch, he can find strength on the bench. One of the only lines that received enthusiastic applause from delegates during the flat first half of John McCain’s Republican National Convention speech last Thursday came when the nominee said his party

“believes in the rule of law, and judges who dispense justice impartially and don’t legislate from the bench.”
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