{"id":14557,"date":"2015-01-21T00:01:16","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T08:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14557"},"modified":"2015-01-21T00:01:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T08:01:17","slug":"bye-bye-fair-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/21\/bye-bye-fair-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"Bye Bye Fair Housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican Party have been yard at work undermining over a century\u2019s progress toward ensuring basic Constitutional rights to all Americans.&#160; They have attacked the rights of racial minorities, women, LGTP people, seniors, students, and more.&#160; Few have been more helpful in this regard than the Fascist Five Injustices of SCROTUS (Republican Constitutional VD).&#160; Here they go again!<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0121scrotus-kkk\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0121scrotus-kkk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/0121scrotus-kkk.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"518\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two days after celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.&#8217;s birth, the Supreme Court will consider weakening a federal housing discrimination law passed in the wake of his death.<\/p>\n<p>The showdown over the Fair Housing Act of 1968 has been anticipated for several years \u2014 eagerly by conservatives who say the law has gone too far, anxiously by civil rights groups who fear it will be rolled back.<\/p>\n<p>The facts of the case \u2014 involving a decision by Dallas officials to make most federal low-income housing vouchers available in poor, minority neighborhoods \u2014 are less important than the potential nationwide impact. If the court rules as expected, housing discrimination cases would be tougher to win from coast to coast.<\/p>\n<p>Two earlier housing discrimination lawsuits from Minnesota and New Jersey were withdrawn or settled just before reaching the high court \u2014 in one case at the urging of the Obama administration, which is aligned with the civil rights community. They fear what most court-watchers predict: that five justices are poised to weaken the law, just as they did the Voting Rights Act in 2013\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2015\/01\/19\/supreme-court-housing-discrimination\/22008545\/\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Rachel Maddow put the story in context.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/qpTVPwkYva8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I fully agree with Rachel&#8217;s analysis. The Fascist Five Republican Injustices of SCROTUS went out of their way to hear this case, because they want to gut civil rights protections.&#160; Bye Bye Fair Housing!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican Party have been yard at work undermining over a century\u2019s progress toward ensuring basic Constitutional rights to all Americans.&#160; They have attacked the rights of racial minorities, women, LGTP people, seniors, students, and more.&#160; Few have been more helpful in this regard than the Fascist Five Injustices of SCROTUS (Republican Constitutional VD).&#160; Here <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/21\/bye-bye-fair-housing\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}