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sinkingfeeling

(51,274 posts)
Tue Jan 20, 2015, 10:11 AM Jan 2015

Supreme Court may scale back housing discrimination law

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/01/19/supreme-court-housing-discrimination/22008545/

WASHINGTON — Two days after celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, the Supreme Court will consider weakening a federal housing discrimination law passed in the wake of his death.

The showdown over the Fair Housing Act of 1968 has been anticipated for several years — eagerly by conservatives who say the law has gone too far, anxiously by civil rights groups who fear it will be rolled back.

The Supreme Court's desire to hear the opponents' case — and very possibly rule in their favor — has been clear for years. The justices reached out to consider the two previous cases, as well as the current one from Texas, even though federal appeals courts have ruled consistently that showing a discriminatory impact is sufficient.

For good reason, says Andrew Sandler, who represents many of the nation's leading banks and financial services companies in legal battles with federal and state agencies. Using the current interpretation, he says, lenders can be sued successfully based on the statistical results of their policies.

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Watch as the Supremes hand bankers another present and sets the country back decades!!
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Supreme Court may scale back housing discrimination law (Original Post) sinkingfeeling Jan 2015 OP
Sigh. marym625 Jan 2015 #1
Of course they will edhopper Jan 2015 #2
You know... 2naSalit Jan 2015 #3

edhopper

(33,164 posts)
2. Of course they will
Tue Jan 20, 2015, 10:37 AM
Jan 2015

Roberts said there isn't discrimination any more. When he fucked the Voting Rights Act.

2naSalit

(86,031 posts)
3. You know...
Tue Jan 20, 2015, 12:44 PM
Jan 2015

I was hoping we could somehow revive our collective humanity at some point in the near future but now I can't see that through the smog of war on everything but money in the control of the wealthy and serfdom for us. Bit by bit, picking away at our hard won rights, well being and pursuit of happiness like ravens trying to peck the eyes out of a wounded elk before it actually falls down.

I am quickly coming to feel that what I saw as a worst case scenario but unlikely is now coming to pass... and it isn't going to be good for all lifeforms on the planet.

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