From the Washington Post news section:
How a Trump-allied group fighting ’anti-white bigotry’ beats Biden in court
America First Legal was founded last year by Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump’s immigrant family separation policy
By Beth Reinhard and Josh Dawsey
December 12, 2022 at 6:00 a.m. ESTThe deal in early 2021 was hailed by advocates for Black farmers as the most significant piece of legislation since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — about $4 billion in President Biden’s massive pandemic stimulus package to rectify decades of discrimination. Minority farmers began investing in new machinery and other improvements, anticipating tens of thousands of dollars in government aid.
But today, the landmark deal on behalf of historically disadvantaged farmers is dead — successfully challenged in court by a fledgling conservative organization that argued the program racially discriminated against White farmers.
America First Legal is headed by Stephen Miller, the architect of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigrants. While AFL lacks the name recognition and financial heft of many conservative counterparts, it has racked up notable court victories over the Biden administration. …
AFL-backed suits helped doom a $29 billion program that prioritized struggling female and minority-owned restaurants last year, and last week, a council created by the Department of Education that conservative parents groups viewed as partisan. AFL has won in part by consistently filing lawsuits in a conservative-friendly judicial district in Texas and taking advantage of a larger federal court system revamped by Trump’s predominantly conservative nominees.
The group’s success is alarming civil rights advocates, who fear Miller has figured out how to harness the courts to protect America’s declining White majority
Miller acts as if the Constitution requires the equal protection of the laws. What a nut!
and unravel government policies intended to right historical wrongs against marginalized communities.
“Many of these lawsuits are centered on making sure that White people remain in control and continue to benefit from unearned privileges, and on maintaining the systemic discriminatory policies that have harmed Black people and other people of color for generations,” said David Hinojosa, an attorney with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. “To argue that White men are being pushed to the back of the line is unfounded and ridiculous. What they’re being asked to do is share a place in line with other people who do not look like them.”
It’s striking how quickly this slightly insane theory that the basic idea of Constitutional theory is that the law should “right historical wrongs” for groups rather than provide justice for individuals from now into the future has become the conventional wisdom.
That the Constitution mandates equal rights for whites as well as blacks is now seen as being in appallingly bad taste. No other argument other than Stalinoid who-whom is put forward in favor of bigoted laws, but that’s considered ample these days.
