Judge: Two Virginia Schools With Confederate Names Violate Black Students’ Rights
Black students will suffer psychological harm if they walk into a building named for Stonewall Jackson, a liberal judge said.
Two Virginia schools are violating the rights of black students simply by being named after Confederate leaders, according to a federal judge appointed by President Barack Obama.
Judge Michael Urbanski sided with the Virginia NAACP and ordered Shenandoah County to rename Stonewall Jackson High School and Ashby-Lee Elementary School. The school board previously changed the names in 2020, only for new leaders to revert to the previous names in 2024.
The Confederate names “violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Equal Educational Opportunities Act,” Judge Urbanski wrote in his order.
He said the schools must change their names in order to remove “the vestiges of segregation embedded in Shenandoah County’s public school system.”
In his opinion, he said the names further racism. He also relied on the testimony of a supposed expert who argued that black children will have worse mental health outcomes if the schools are named after Confederate leaders.
Judge Urbanski wrote:
After a thorough review of the impact of the restoration of the Confederate school names, the court concludes that the decision to reinstate the names imposes a disproportionate burden on Black students in Shenandoah County by subjecting them to race-based educational, psychological, and dignitary harms that their White peers do not bear…
…The historical record is clear that the Shenandoah County School Board named their
newly-constructed high school after Stonewall Jackson in 1959 in furtherance of Massive Resistance to desegregation. Though Black students are no longer literally excluded from public schools, to them the choice to resurrect a Confederate name in 2024 invokes the same message of exclusion that the name carried when it was first given to the school.
He also cited witnesses who said attending these schools made them “feel ‘unwelcome’ and ‘inferior.'”
“Plainly, the School Board’s decision to return to the Confederate school names falls
more harshly on Black students than White students,” the ruling stated.
The president of the Virginia NAACP praised the ruling.
“The School Board’s 2024 renaming decision is impossible to explain except through the lens of race,” Cozy Bailey stated in a news release. “Long before the Supreme Court consolidated cases brought by my predecessors in Virginia and other states into the landmark Brown case, the NAACP has stood up for Black students.”
Judge Urbanski sided with the plaintiffs last year as well.
That ruling drew criticism from historian Mary Grabar.
“I do not think that returning the school name to its original name violates the speech rights of students,” Grabar told The College Fix last year. “Schools and other public institutions are often named after people that some members of the public do not like.”
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Ugh!!
This country is toast.
It sure does feel that way more often than not.
Lets change all the MLK roads as that offends me.
They do serve one good purpose. When you’re on Martin Luther King boulevard, you know damn well you’re in a part of town you don’t want to be in.
Or Rosa Parks Boulevard. Or you pass the school named for Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X.
Isn’t that the whole point, though? Suppose your children, er, cubs were told they had to attend Malcolm X High School. Would you be OK with that?
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Just keep your doors locked and don’t go back after sundown.
No way, having streets named after MLK serve as a simple yet effective warning to motorists, warning them to GET OUT OF THAT AREA.
Really? Don’t see any difference?
Curious that this totally strong fearsome “we wuz kangs!” race of people can be crippled by words. What should all the Blecks named “White” do?
It’s simply a variation of a theme of women who were strong and independent and don’t need any men in their lives. But the minute you offer them a compliment on that nice new blouse they’re wearing you get called by HR and written up. You invaded her safe space
To satisfy this woke judge, just give it an historic gay name.
I suggest the Stonewall Johnson to commemorate the 69 NYC riot.
We really live in the dumbest of times. When Palm Beach Fl renamed their airport after Trump, lefties immediately lost their sh*t. United Airlines circulated an internal memo suggesting free flight swaps to Miami or Fort Lauderdale for the precious little leftists who felt offended. They’ve walked that back but the fact that a major airline even considered that idea is absurd. If you’re too mentally unstable to fly into Trump airport, you’re too mentally unstable to get on an airplane.
I object to any school being named for someone I don’t like…
“…and I don’t like anybody very much.” – Kingston Trio, “The Merry Minuet”
While Virginia law prohibited the teaching of blacks to read and write, Jackson openly taught Bible instructions that involved reading and writing. That Jackson who openly challenged the status quo? Perhaps it was in a small, but not insignificant way. Jackson who also fought with distinction in the Mexican American war? Who also taught at VMI? Sound like an educator to me.
“Schools and other public institutions are often named after people that some members of the public do not like.” I can think of many that I find distasteful. Grow up and move on. Academic studies are vital to success. Success is the best revenge. The USA is wide open with opportunity.
I’m a Yankee with multiple relatives that fought in “The War of Northern Aggression” (as it would be termed below the Mason Dixon).
I would no sooner remove Stonewall Jackson’s or any other hero in butternut from a public place than I would Abraham Lincoln’s.
The Civil War is part of our heritage, an ugly, long slog of death and dismemberment that is indelible and unforgettable.
The NAACP is another in the long series of leftist organizations that fit the “identify, kill, skin, wear demanding respect” meme. Screw them and anything they want.
History’s not there for you to pick and choose what makes you comfortable, it’s there for you to learn from so hopefully it doesn’t happen again.
We are long down the road to having happen again, unfortunately.
A lot of leftists don’t like Abraham Lincoln either.
Of course not, he freed all their slaves.
I’m conservative, but a constitutionalist, so I don’t like Lincoln either. The Lincoln we were taught about in school is largely a fiction. He did great damage to the essential, federal nature of the country as established by the Constitution and set us on a road that led to FDR and the creation of a central government.
Lincoln was actually hesitant about the 14th Amendment, and there’s at least one conspiracy theory that his death was somewhat facilitated by Republicans who wanted him out of the way to pass it.
Being originally from MD, troubling to learn that Lincoln put ALL the MD reps in Fort McHenry – jail basically – so they would not vote to secede. Not very constitutional (:
But then again, does anyone care the the Emancipation Proclamation freed NO slaves in the Union, just the Confederacy. But I learned none of this in school, as MD was totally north-ified, even 60 years ago
Thanks! I expected to hear this from somebody. What would you suggest Lincoln should have done differently, and what would have been the result?
NO ONE has the right to not be offended…another leftist activist judge strikes again.
Judge looks like a real doofus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_F._Urbanski
Another foreign born judge, there are far too many.
Are they willing to change the names of any schools with black hero names? Especially if 5hey fought for slave freedom.
“Black students will suffer psychological harm if they walk into a building named for Stonewall Jackson, a liberal judge said.”
It’s a good thing we whites are made of sterner stuff. We have to be, in order to drive down the 1,000+ streets in the USA named after Martin Luther King, many of us having to do that every day,
You really don’t see a difference? Would you have proudly shipped your kids off to be minority students at Malcolm X High School?
There’s no logical difference between group X being ‘oppressed’ by a name they don’t like than group Y being ‘oppressed’ by a name they don’t like.
The easiest way to quickly determine if a particular policy, law, regulation or ruling is Cray Cray is to alter the wording to make a ‘straight white, male’ the beneficiary and then the obvious discriminatory Cray Cray becomes very clear to all but most dimwitted or those determined to continue in willful blindness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum
No because black majority schools treat whites much worse than the reverse. Look at the death threats that white students have received at HBCUs.
Heaven forbid it be a white female dating a black male. Then the claws and braid whips come out.
Why not? Malcolm X isn’t in charge of the school. He also is part of history.
If student rights are violated here then there should be a nationwide class action against the Democrat Party, the champions of the “peculiar institution,” the Klan, Jim Crow, and segregation. They even filibustered the Civil Rights Act, way back when the senate had real filibusters.
Oh hell no
Chose another school
How many could even tell you who Stonewall Jackson was?
Why he was the hero of the queer resistance, right?
How many could spell his name?
Just a thought: maybe go to a different school if it will be so traumatic.
Judge f*ckwit.
Stupid liberal judges and the NAACP offend me.
Obongo appointee Urbanski must step down, and the NAACP disbanded.
guess all the white kids are going to have to endure the psychological trauma of attending harriet tubman middle school
How so? Harriet Tubman was cool. She’s a genuine hero to all Americans. Your point is well made, but find a better example.
Barack Obama Middle School?
I hardly think she needs be injected into the conversation. While perhaps overblown, her accomplishments were real. It was an era and a time when even small efforts were significant. Perhaps renaming every school in the South after Gen. T. Sherman will placate the woke idiot of a judge?
Under any circumstances, I agree Milhouse on this point.
Racists might object to the name. Racists don’t have rights (and feelings) too? Seriously. Racism is frowned upon in polite society, but the Constitution says everyone is entitled to their opinions (esp. their political opinions, and everything concerning race is certainly political, or at least has been politicized). If someone can claim harm from the name of a school because of the politics affiliated with the named person and that is actionable, it’s actionable even if your opinion is a minority opinion and is generally considered “wrong.” The government and the courts aren’t supposed to be taking sides, as it would do if it refused to hear complaints concerning schools named after persons generally considered “good” or “cool.” I’m sure “experts” can be found who would be willing to accept pay for testimony that supports the claim that the name causes harm to the plaintiff.
Time to name each school….district 1, district 2, etc. (oh wait, are arabic numerals offensive?)
Everyone’s entitled to his own opinion, but the government is also entitled to its own opinion. The courts have been clear about that. A government is not required to be neutral; it can’t discriminate against people for having the wrong opinions, but it can tell those people that it thinks they’re wrong.
Barack Obama causes me psychological harm. I demand that all vestiges of that man be removed from all forms of media and his presidency be erased in its entirely so I will never encounter that name no matter where I go or what I do.
Same. I agree.
I demand that all vestiges of that man be removed
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come on–he DID build the chicago shithouse
His “unpaid” labor built it. He just showed up to cut the ribbon.
That monstrosity gets eliminated too.
Pupils’. I can’t stress this enough.
The is zero chance of that ruling being upheld if an appeal is taken. Probably less than zero.
of the 15 circuit judges of the 4th Circuit, where an appeal would be held. 8 were nominated by Dem presidents.
Better rehthink those odds.
There’s a place beyond that circuit you know.
Then how is it that in all the time since 1964 and 1974 no one discovered these violations until just now?
This is so, but how is it relevant now, 67 years later?
But maybe those entering the building are unwelcome and inferior… Carrying animus and ignorance into the school should make one less desirable. The NAaCP has so few dragons to slay anymore, even a small lizard is doomed. Stonewall Jackson wanted to free all slaves and fight the war for totally other issues. The NAACP, like the Dem Party,, are becoming communist stooges.
Maybe those entering the building just don’t want to be there no matter the name.
“Man, it like you go there and they expects you to do stuff.”
The Birmingham airport was named after Fred Shuttlesworth. The Bride and I have flown through there numerous times. Know what? I don’t care. The name on the building doesn’t affect us one way or the other. These black snowflakes (now there’s an image for ya) need to change lanes and get past it.
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I live outside Las Vegas and I was perturbed when the powers that be renamed the LV airport to Harry Reid Airport or as I refer to it “F-in Harry Reid Airport”. I like the ring of it.
It’s got more of a ring to it.
So is the airport shuttle called the Shuttlesworth Shuttle?
And what track and what time? Is the Shuttleworth Shuttle worth the shuttle?
Then every school named after a Democrat does the same.
Unfortunately, this will be appealed to the 4th Circuit, which seeks to advance the woke agenda whenever the opportunity presents itself.
Pretty sure that all of the problems that those kids are having have nothing to do with whoever their school is named after. The vast majority of them probably have problems because of no father in their household and no authority to instill discipline in them.
It’s very probably that, before this was an issue, no student, black or white, knew who Jackson was anyway.
He was the guy who invented the Moonwalk.
Rename the school Michael “*StoneWall*” Jackson School for the Special Children
* Nickname applied posthumously for stonewalling law enforcement from taking action against his criminal pedophilia
If they had any idea they probably thought he was the dude who dropped atomic bombs on Hitler during the Vietnam War.
He did that because of the German bombing of Pearl Harbor.
The Defense should have had a video for the court, interviewing the students, asking who Stonewall Jackson was and what he did, instead of making a dumb ruling based on hearsay and maybes. Then a video of putting the same question to the NAACP litigants.
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Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
1. furthers racism
2. children will have worse mental health outcomes
That more accurately describes the in your face “black lives matter” bull crab much more than the mere name of a school.
Shelby Foote (via Derb):
It was close to 4 o’clock by now, and all that protocol required had been performed. After nearly three hours in the McLean parlor — half of one spent waiting and the rest in what could scarcely be called negotiation, since his adversary had freely given all he asked and more than he had hoped for: including immunity, down the years, from prosecution on any charge whatever in connection with the war — Lee was free to go. He rose, shook hands with Grant again, bowed to the others, and passed from the room, followed by Marshall. Out on the porch, several blue-clad officers came to attention and saluted as he emerged. He put on his hat to return their salute, then crossed to the head of the steps leading down to the yard. There he drew on his gauntlets, distractedly striking the fist of one hand three times into the palm of the other as he looked out across the valley to where the men of his army were waiting to learn that they had been surrendered. “Orderly! Orderly!” he called hoarsely, not seeing Tucker close by with Traveller, whose bit had been slipped to let him graze. “Here, General, here,” Tucker replied, and Lee came down the steps to stand by the horse’s head while he was being bridled. A cavalry major, watching from the porch, noted that “as the orderly was buckling the throat latch, the general reached up and drew the forelock out from under the brow band, parted and smoothed it, and then gently patted the gray charger’s forehead in an absent-minded way, as one who loves horses, but whose thoughts are far away, might unwittingly do.” Mounted, Lee waited for Marshall and Tucker, then started at a walk across the yard. Grant had come out of the house and down the steps by then, also on his way to the gate where his own horse was tethered. Stopping, he removed his hat in salute, as did the staff men with him. Lee raised his own hat briefly in return, and passed out through the gate and up the road. Presently, northward beyond the dwindled, tree-lined Appomattox, listeners on the porch heard cheers, and then a poignant silence.
I can’t imagine what it would have been like to have been in Lee’s shoes on that day. All I know is that I hope I’m never in such distress as he must have felt.
I’m offended that if I’m an employer, I can’t hire based on Merritt alone without getting the attention of the justice department. I’m offended that so much of my money goes to fund jails to lock up a demographic that seems to have a problem with crime. Etc..
Merritt Garland? And Ed It button alone would suffice.
You can.
If you want to be offended at something, it should be that you can’t hire based on your own preferences, no matter how irrational they may be, or how offensive to other people. That shouldn’t be the law, but unfortunately it is. Barry Goldwater was right to oppose it, but was politically unwise.
However, that Is the law. This bullshit is not. This judge just made it up.
So new names will be needed right? May I suggest Idi Amin Elementary School and Papa Doc High?
Anthony Johnson! The first American slave owner. The black dude who got the court system to change the status of his indentured servant to “slave.”
I thought that to get to a courtroom you had to show damage or loss. Who or what did they present to the court that proved this? Saying that it harmed black children has to be proven and a plaintiff appointed.
Associational standing.
Not if you’re an Obongo appointee to the bench.
Just all part and parcel of the racial grievance industry. More than sure if you were to ask 10 random black students going to these schools who their school was named after and the historical significance `of that individual in history none would be able to tell you anything at all. But a White dude in a robe has told us all that having these names would be a horrific trauma to blacks attending the schools so they must be changed. Go figure.
Just like the democrats/communists tell us that women and minorities just aren’t bright enough to be able to obtain ID.
Children in this generation can’t even read. You think they even care?
I’m curious if anyone else is sick and tired of hearing about the ‘rights’ of black people, that always supersede the rights of everyone else? How about the black ‘students’ in this case spend more time crying about why blacks seem to have the ‘right’ to commit violent crime at a rate that far exceeds what would be expected, based on their percent of the population?
The NAACP has become an irrelevant joke. Renaming schools is a priority? How pathetic!
But they’d never name it for Robert Smalls, Civil War hero, Congressman, and self-liberated slave. He called on every black man in the North to vote Republican so as to bury the Democrats so deep not even a sign would be left.
Maybe they would if you suggested it.
However the did name a navy ship. The USS Robert Smalls (CG-62) is a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser. It is still in service.
However, and this is interesting, this is a renamed ship, It was originally named USS Chancellorsville for the American Civil War Battle of Chancellorsville, a battle the confederate won, It included a portrait of generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson in the cruiser’s wardroom, This pissed off some people as you can imagine.
The paintings were removed in 2016. On 27 February 2023, the Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced that the US Navy would rename Chancellorsville after Robert Smalls, a slave who commandeered the Confederate ship CSS Planter in 1862. The name change was made effective on 1 March 2023,
The Army also has the Brigadier General Robert Smalls, a transport. He captained transports during the Civil War so it’s a perfect naming. His rank came from his service in the South Carolina militia after the war — and before Jim Crow.
The judge’s logic reminds me of the “right to privacy” that was invented without any legal basis whatsoever in Griswold v. Connecticut.
In both cases, the Constitution’s words provide absolutely no justification for the holding.
Griswold destroyed the Constitution.
Why would you say that? Because the right to privacy isn’t enumerated in the Bill of Rights? I’ll remind you the Constitution puts limits on government, not on the rights of the people. Also, the legal argument, that a right does not exist because it’s not enumerated in the Bill of Rights, is specifically denied credit by the Ninth Amendment (and the right to privacy can be found there too). (Your point of view is evidence that those opposed to a Bill of Rights were correct – they feared that the enumeration of certain rights would lead to the claim that others, not enumerated, do not exist. What became the Ninth Amendment was devised specifically to deny the argument any validity.)
If Article One doesn’t give Congress the authority to break into our privacy, then we have a right to privacy even if only by default. Some would argue that the right is found in the Fourth Amendment; what purpose is served by being secure in our persons, papers, and effects, if not the purpose of having those things remain “private”?
This is incorrect, because we’re not talking about Congress. We’re talking about the states, which are not limited to enumerated powers On the contrary, states have a general police power, which allows them to do pretty much anything they think appropriate, unless there’s something specific in the US constitution, federal law, or their own constitution that forbids it.
Remember, the defendant in Griswold was Connecticut. SCOTUS found that the US constitution protects married couples’ privacy, so the states can’t ban married people from buying contraceptives. Article I of the US constitution is irrelevant to such laws.
Well, would you expect Jewish students in Germany to attend the Heinz Guderian Middle School? Work out in the Joachim Sepp Dietrich Gymnasium?
Folks, those men were Democrats. And they were doing the same damn Democrat thing of ignoring any election that doesn’t go their way. Like when state Congressmen flee the state so nothing gets done. It’s the same thing.
They were following the constitutionally granted right to form a commonwealth of free and independent states and the principle that the union is voluntary.
A dumb question from a layman, but the harm from the naming of the school seems purely theoretical and in the potential future. I thought that you have to show some injury to have standing to sue.
What am I missing?
The plaintiffs assert that the harm is happening now, even if its full impact will be in the long term. Like if your neighbor is doing something now that weakens your foundation and will cause your house to collapse in 20 years.
I am gonna sue when I have to enter buildings named for Obama or Biden, then.
It is clear that someone will be upset by any name so this Judge should have not done anything. If we keep going this way we will have to name all buildings only by numbers.
Even some numbers are offensive to some people.
e.g.
666
86-47
Arabic numerals are offensive because they were stolen from India, and the Romans were slave owners.
The alphabet was also appropriated from Europe Colonialism and the origins of the English language.
We can’t have any of these things.
What about Greek numerals?
“Black students will suffer psychological harm if they walk into a building named for Stonewall Jackson, a liberal judge said.”
That sounds very legally questionable.
I imagine the schools will be renamed……”V.I. Lenin” and “Sal Alindky”. Except maye George Floyd and Trayvan Martin as both died “being down for the shruggle”.
Sorry, everybody, but I gotta side with the loony liberal judge on this one, on the basis that even a broken clock turns out to show the correct time twice a day.
In my view, the right way to approach this is to ask two things. First, is the person for whom the school is named someone who was on the wrong side of the line not just in how he acted and not just viewed from today’s perspective but viewed from the perspective of his own time and what he is remembered for? Second, how does the name affect people?
On the first point, it’s not too hard to agree that individuals like General Lee, General Jackson and Senator Calhoun could have, should have and probably did know that slavery could not be defended and yet we remember them almost exclusively for the actions they took in defense of that “peculiar institution.” The upshot is their names are vulnerable to removal from public institutions (as, for example, is Woodrow Wilson’s on the basis of his racism including re-segregating the army after WWI), but no one can have a legitimate complaint about the fact that Washington and Jefferson owned slaves because that is, under any realistic view, a tiny element of why and how we remember them.
On the second score, children in elementary school are treated as being sensitive and tightly involved, differently, for example, from an airport or an office building or even a street.
So where I come out on this is that a school should not be named after Stonewall Jackson no matter what his good qualities might have been, in much the same way that it would be outrageous to name a school after Hitler on the grounds that he restored German pride after WWI.
You were making a marginally decent argument until your last paragraph. To compare the name of Stonewall Jackson to that of Hitler is a false equivalence of the highest degree.
To many, then as well as now, Jackson was a hero and a patriot.
If the Civil War’s history were better known, Lincoln would be known as a tyrant, rather than a liberator. He certainly did not fight the war to end slavery. He fought it to “save the Union” by denying that US citizens had the right to quit what was a voluntary association of nominally sovereign states. But the constructed images as “savior of the Union” and the “great emancipator” (propaganda) have prevailed, as has the (negative) constructed image of all those who fought for the Confederacy and the freedom of their States. The propaganda war associated with the Civil War continues to this day.
Grow up. Lincoln was a hero. The Civil War was started because Democrats couldn’t stand the idea of a Republican winning the presidency. Secession started before Lincoln was in office, and the Southrons fired first.
Grow up. Lincoln was a hero. The Civil War was started because Democrats couldn’t stand the idea of a Republican winning the presidency
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you’re certainly entitled to your opinion–had ancestors who fought in the forces of both sides in the conflict–officers in the army of the potomac and cavalrymen / infantrymen in the confederate forces here–lincoln was no hero–he could have prevented the war but chose not to–allowing and abetting the ” reconstruction ” campaign on the south dissolved any luster lincoln may have had as a ” great statesman “–he ” preserved the union ” true, but at what cost to the nation, particularly the south ?–after the war’s end there is no excuse for his allowing the horriffic abuses of the lives / rights / property / liberty of american citizens living in the south–none–it cost him his life and rightfully so
That’s a long-winded argument to say “feelings”
A long winded way to say the truth of the causes of the Civil War has not been taught – the winners have gotten to write it.
The truth is the Southern Democrats couldn’t stand losing an election, so chose violence.
A decision their party has repeated over and over in the years since.
Why should they have known that? The idea that slavery is wrong was still new and controversial. It was contrary to the norms of every single culture since the beginning of human history. No one before the 18th century ever had such an idea.
Everyone took for granted that slavery was right and proper; even the slaves did so. Slaves may have resented their own status, but they didn’t wish for slavery to be abolished, they wished to gain freedom and become wealthy and own slaves of their own.
The Bible, which to this day Jews and Christians take as the very definition of morality, explicitly endorses slavery, and never raises the slightest objection to it. The abolitionist movement relied on convincing people that the Bible was not the last word on morality, that there could be moral rules beyond those of the Bible.
By the 1860s abolitionism was accepted by a lot of people, but it was not yet universally accepted. So one can’t blame people who decided to fight for their home state even if they personally weren’t comfortable with slavery. Let alone those who actually were comfortable with it, and thus were acting in perfect accord with morality as they and their society understood it.
I am surprised the article presented this without looking at the law or parse the opinion.
The new school in 1959 was named after Jackson as a middle finger to desegregation. In 2020 the school board changed the name in a resolution to condemn racism. A newly elected board proposed to change the name back to Jackson. A public meeting was held and the board voted to change the name. The NAACP sued saying the public meeting in no way indicated approval with changing the name.
The court wanted to know the reason the board voted to change the name. The board claimed a legislative privilege that courts cannot force legislators to justify the way they vote. The court said it doesn’t work that way: the NAACP has presented historical evidence of anti-civil rights actions so you are required to present a reason that does not violate federal civil rights laws. The board refused to state reasons.
You be the judge…. how do you rule?
I rule that elections have consequences. The elected officials of that area did what their constituents elected them to do…if they didn’t, they won’t be re-elected and will be replaced.
Allow the legislative process to work in its fashion without the judiciary intervening on behalf of an outside lobbyist group that doesn’t even live in the area. While they may owe an explanation of how they vote to their voting populace, they don’t owe it to a judge or the aforementioned outside group.
I’d dismiss the case, as the NAACP has no standing.
Assuming the case itself had merit, why would the NAACP not have associational standing?
That’s ridiculous. The entire point of our constitution is that elections DON’T always have consequences. Elections tell us what the people want; but there are things the people can’t have no matter how much they want them.
If a city denies a mosque a building permit or a routine zoning variance because the people of the city don’t want mosques, the courts not only can but MUST order the city to approve the variance, and throw them in prison if they refuse. If the people don’t want a mosque near them, screw the people. They will be forced to have the mosque anyway, because they have no right to deny it. That is the supreme law of the land, and it doesn’t matter who doesn’t like it.
Racist judge thinks black children are so useless and fragile that they need him to be their rescuing savior.
Progressive white rides to the rescue again to save the poor black children.
I live in Manassas, VA. After George Floyd overdosed on his own supply, they renamed everything.
Stonewall High School became Unity Reed High School.
The idiots didn’t realize until too late that it was now: U.R. High.