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| Federal Judge Permits Students To Sue AZ To Keep Racist School Classes |
| 2012-01-12 |
| Judge A. Wallace Tashima of U.S. District Court in Tucson issued an order finding that students in the Tucson Unified School District can sue the state and challenge the constitutionality of the law that bans racially divisive courses in Arizona schools. Just before the district's governing board on Tuesday decided to suspend the controversial Mexican-American studies courses, to prevent the loss of millions of dollars of state aid, the judge decided that students have legal standing to pursue a federal case that argues the state law violates their First Amendment rights. Tashima wrote that Lopez has standing in the argument that her constitutional rights are under threat because the Mexican-American studies courses she wants to take next fall are at risk of elimination and because, under the law, the state appears to be trying to restrict her First Amendment right to the Mexican-American studies texts and materials that it finds objectionable. By providing the court a list of the classes she would take, including Mexican-American studies courses, "Lopez has established a concrete and non-speculative injury sufficient to establish standing," Tashima wrote. So students have the constitutional right to demand that schools must provide them the curriculum they want, even if it is racist, secessionist, factually incorrect and anti-American in character? Wonder if students have a constitutional right to demand schools provide them with a grounding in western civilization and traditional ethics that is egalitarian, correct and pro-American. No, on second thought I don't wonder at all... |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #10 Is the state saying that Senorita Lopez may not buy the books, or that they cannot be published? No. They are simply saying that they don't want to pay for them. If Senorita Lopez wants to read that tripe, she is free to purchase them with her own money. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2012-01-12 20:17 |
| #9 Wow, you mean I have a constitutional right to state funded Mexican-American studies in high school? They didn't have that where I went to high school. Does that mean I can sue? For how much? But I don't remember where it says in the First Amendment that I have a right to state funded Mexican-American studies texts. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2012-01-12 19:22 |
| #8 Just get the state out of the provision of School. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2012-01-12 16:13 |
| #7 George Will said, some years back, that "the three R's are now Racism, Recycling and Reproduction." Time to get rid of the system and replace it with something that teaches only basic skills that can demonstrably be used to get a job or move on to higher education. While we are at it, (a crazy dream, I know) squeeze the UN financially until there is a new human rights resolution that totally outlaws ideological indoctrination in ANY school. It will hit madrassas and US public schools equally hard. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2012-01-12 13:32 |
| #6 More proof why judges need to be accountable to the voters and have term limits. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2012-01-12 12:00 |
| #5 This must be the "good" kind of institutional racism |
| Posted by: regular joe 2012-01-12 11:32 |
| #4 ...it's also the result of the abdication of power by the legislative branch to the other two. Bad behavior, and nothing stops Congress from defining that themselves, is the basis of removal. The immunity of the judiciary is no less than that of princes and other titled nobility that pre-dated Independence. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-01-12 11:21 |
| #3 Tashima is a Carter appointee. 30 years later, he's continuing to impose his personal ideology over the wishes of the majority. Guys like him are why conservatives must vote Republican come election day. An Obama win would mean more anti-majoritarian judges like Tashima. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2012-01-12 11:18 |
| #2 So when the KKK start to run school classes with state money... |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2012-01-12 10:09 |
| #1 Maybe they should move (back) to Mexico and go to school there? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2012-01-12 09:45 |