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...America is still not perfectly equal, he said. Mitchell charged the audience to "conduct themselves so that this aspiration is truly realized...
...policing in New York was made possible by a string of recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions that have increased police discretion and permitted law enforcement agents to circumvent the spirit of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures and the Fourteenth Amendment's assurance of equal protection. In only the most upsetting of recent string of decisions, the court ruled in Whren v . U.S. that the police were not out of line when they used a minor crime as a pretext for stopping someone whom they found suspicious without an articulable basis for that suspicion. Writing...
...component of an officer's decision to stop someone for behavior typical of a large number of innocent people has shocking ramifications for law enforcement across the country. If this precedent is expanded, the legislature might as well make "driving while black" a crime on the books, because the equal protection clause will cease to mean anything in American jurisprudence...
...racist "separate but equal" policies of the pre-civil-rights-era South are still reverberating in North Carolina - and has affected what many see as a legitimate educational experiment. Last week, Parkwood Middle School, in a suburb of Charlotte, bowed to pressure from the local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and ended a half-year tryout in which 55 of 335 of Parkwood's eighth graders were separated by gender into two different classes. The ACLU claimed the exercise, which school officials hoped would highlight any intellectual benefits of segregating adolescents by gender, was discriminatory toward the girls...
Before the Supreme Court's 1954 decision on Brown v. Board of Education, the idea of maintaining "separate but equal" facilities for different groups (generally blacks and whites) was widely accepted, especially in the South. ACLU officials found Parkwood's idea of separate classrooms a bit too reminiscent of a less enlightened era, says TIME legal reporter Alain Sanders. "The ACLU is approaching the problem from a historical perspective, and the history of segregation, racial or gender-based, is one in which women and minorities have consistently gotten the short end of the stick," says Sanders. So just...