On: MIT's first freshman class since affirmative-actio...

[matrix87]

good luck to the people who want it back, it's an uphill battle from here. next up on the chopping block: hiring

[beaglesss → matrix87]

Civil rights act as imposed on private entities is blatantly unconstitutional violation of the 10th amendment IMO. I think current SCOTUS may have the cajones to actually nix it.

[matrix87 → beaglesss]

this scotus has the political orientation needed to do something like that

OTOH, it flies in the face of the classic conservative "letting corporations do whatever they want" attitude, so it might be a mixed bag

[underseacables → beaglesss]

That is blatantly asinine. Are you saying that a hotel should be able to discriminate against someone based on their race?

[beaglesss → underseacables]

In intrastate commerce I see no reason how the feds can constitutionally stop them.

[underseacables → beaglesss]

Banking. Money crosses state lines which makes it fair game under the commerce clause. There's only 50+ years of court cases on the subject.

[beaglesss → underseacables]

Yes under the commerce clause in recent history has been interpreted to mean interstate commerce is something as simple as growing a weed plant on your own land and smoking it.

The precious CRA is an oft cited law as to why we need expansive interpretation of that clause (as without it CRA as we know it would be finished), the sooner SCOTUS crushes the CRA the sooner we can finally crush the rest of the civil rights violating overreaches of the prior commerce clause interpretations.

[hackeraccount → underseacables]

By that logic is there anything that the Federal government can't regulate? If that's the case why is the commerce clause in the Constitution at all?

[readthenotes1 → matrix87]

Discrimination based on race has been strictly prohibited since 1964 and the United States based upon Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Allegedly.

[beaglesss → readthenotes1]

The CRA explicitly allows discrimination of say off res private businesses in favor of employing Indians, but not say in favor of blacks near historically black neighborhoods. The CRA itself is quite racist, and not only that is used to hold the expansive interpretation of the commerce clause hostage.