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Friday, August 6, 2021

Federal appeals judge: Implementing critical race theory would violate civil rights law

Judge James Ho warns agency regulators not to apply trendy legal theories to the Civil Rights Act.
 
By Greg Piper  August 5, 202

Critical race theory flies in the face of the federal Civil Rights Act by presuming that racial disparities are the result of racial discrimination, a federal appeals court judge wrote in a concurrence.  A black property owner alleged that a Texas navigation district committed racial discrimination by threatening to condemn properties and conspiring with city officials to keep property values low in his neighborhood, so it could acquire them for a channel improvement project. The East End of Freeport............

Judge James Ho, nominated by President Trump, joined most of the opinion but wrote separately to express his concerns about "unelected agency officials usurping Congress’s authority when it comes to disparate impact theory," which lies behind Rollerson's lawsuit.

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act targets "intentional" racial discrimination, not "neutral policies untainted by racial intent that happen to lead to racially disproportionate outcomes," Ho wrote..............To Read More....


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