Yes: toward a politics of inclusion

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North Carolina did not, as the plaintiffs claimed in Shaw v. Reno, violate the Constitution by intentionally creating black majority districts. Not doing so would have violated the Voting Rights Act's Section 5 in view of the state's record of race discrimination and racially polarized voting. The white plaintiffs would allow redistricting based on any criterion other than race, which would pose a special disadvantage for racial minorities. Black voters would effectively be left out of politics.

Cases, Race discrimination, Apportionment (Election law)

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Is the legal profession on the trash heap?

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The public's negative impression of the legal profession in 1995 results from negative factors such as lawyers' increased ruthlessness, greediness, and time pressures. Clients expect attorneys to use proper manners, maintain professional demeanor, and act with wisdom and insight. Attorneys should conduct themselves properly and demonstrate a genuine concern about society's problems, if they wish to regain public esteem and end the lawyer-bashing jokes.

United States, Attorneys, Lawyers, Public opinion

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The Racial Preference Licensing Act; a fable about the politics of hate

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This allegory is a satirical proposal for a federal law whereby business owners would buy licenses permitting them to discriminate and pay special taxes to do so. Their licenses to discriminate would be prominently displayed on their businesses. Requiring the discriminating business to go public and to pay African Americans a price for that 'right' might diminish the financial and psychological gains to be derived from racism.

Evaluation, Humor and anecdotes, Racism, Allegories

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