Justice Ginsburg: America Has A ‘Real Racial Problem’

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="wide-photo-box" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; float: none; margin: 1em auto; max-width: 638px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <img alt="Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Edited)" src="http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/o-RUTH-BADER-GINSBURG-RETIREMENT-facebook-e1387385427784.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: block; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 638px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100% !important;" /><div class="photo-credit" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; padding: 0.5em 0px 0px; position: relative !important; right: 0em !important; text-align: left; text-shadow: none !important; top: 0em !important; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">CREDIT: (AP PHOTO/JESSICA HILL)</span></div> </div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Supreme Court was “once a leader in the world” in combating racial discrimination, according to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “What’s amazing,” she added, “is how things have changed.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ginsburg, who was <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/08/30/307623/ginsburg-womens-rights-work-disqualifies/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">one of America’s top civil rights attorneys</a> before President Carter appointed her to the federal bench in 1980, spoke at length with the <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">National Law Journal</em>‘s Marcia Coyle in an interview that was published Friday. In that interview, she lays out just how much the Court’s outlook on race has changed since she was arguing women’s equality cases before it in the 1970s.</span></div> <div id="aol-mobile-ad" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="tp-advertisement" id="div-gpt-ad-1406054322033-0" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div id="google_ads_iframe_/17107625/tp_all_article_z2_1x1_1_0__container__" style="border: 0pt none; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><iframe frameborder="0" height="1" id="google_ads_iframe_/17107625/tp_all_article_z2_1x1_1_0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="google_ads_iframe_/17107625/tp_all_article_z2_1x1_1_0" scrolling="no" style="border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100% !important; padding: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="1"></iframe></span></div> </div> </div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In 1971, for example, President Nixon had begun to reshape the Supreme Court. As a presidential candidate and, later, <a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=3098" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">as president</a>, Nixon <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Nixonland-Rise-President-Fracturing-America/dp/074324303X" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">complained</a> that the Supreme Court’s school desegregation decisions had intruded too far on local control of public schools. Yet, as Justice Ginsburg points out, Nixon’s hand-picked Chief Justice, Warren Burger, authored a<a href="http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=401&invol=424" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">unanimous Supreme Court decision</a> recognizing what are known as “disparate impact” suits, which root out discrimination in employers with policies that disproportionately impact minorities.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Burger’s resolution of this case “was a very influential decision and it was picked up in England,” according to Ginsburg.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Court’s present majority, by contrast, seems much more interested in using its power to thwart racial justice. In 2013, for example, the Supreme Court struck down a key prong of the Voting Rights Act, effectively ending a regime that required states with a history of racial voter discrimination to “preclear” new voting laws with officials in Washington before those laws went into effect. Writing for the Court, Chief Justice John Roberts justified this decision because he claimed that racism is no longer a big enough problem in the states covered by the Act, and thus the Voting Rights Act’s longstanding framework was outdated. Permitting the federal government to apply such a check against racially discriminatory voting laws was an “extraordinary departure from the traditional course of relations between the States and the Federal Government,” and it could no longer be allowed, according to Roberts, because “things have changed dramatically” in states with a long history of racism.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Two hours after Roberts claimed that racism was too minor a problem to justify leaving America’s most important voting rights law intact, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced that Roberts’ decision would <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/06/25/2212281/two-hours-after-the-supreme-court-gutted-the-voting-rights-act-texas-ag-suppresses-minority-voters/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">allow a gerrymandered map and a recently enacted voter ID to go into effect</a>. Federal courts had previously blocked both the map and the voting restriction because of their negative impact on minority voters. Alabama made a<a href="http://blog.al.com/wire/2013/06/alabama_photo_voter_id_law_to.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">similar announcement about its voter ID law</a> the same day Roberts handed down his decision. Less than two months later, North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory (R) <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/08/13/2455561/north-carolina-governor-signs-americas-worst-voter-suppression-bill-into-law/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">signed a comprehensive voter suppression law</a> adopting many provisions that reduced minority turnout in other states.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Justice Ginsburg, for her part, warned that tossing out a key prong of the Voting Rights Act “when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like<a href="http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-96_6k47.pdf" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet</a>.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In what may become the most controversial part of her interview with Coyle, Ginsburg also suggests that public acceptance of gay Americans is eclipsing our ability to relate to each other across racial lines. “Once [gay] people began to say who they were,” Ginsburg noted, “you found that it was your next-door neighbor or it could be your child, and we found people we admired.” By contrast, according to Ginsburg, “[t]hat understanding still doesn’t exist with race; you still have separation of neighborhoods, where the races are not mixed. It’s the familiarity with people who are gay that still doesn’t exist for race and will remain that way for a long time as long as where we live remains divided.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regardless of whether Americans as a whole are falling behind on race even as we become more accepting of our gay neighbors, the phenomenon Ginsburg describes is certainly alive and well on her Court. One day after the Court <a href="http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-96_6k47.pdf" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">tore down much of the Voting Rights Act</a>, it<a href="http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6241888197107641609&hl=en&as_sdt=6&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">struck down the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act</a> (DOMA). Justice Anthony Kennedy, who is<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2014/05/when_will_liberals_learn_to_stay_the_heck_away_from_the_supreme_court.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">solidly conservative on most issues that come before the Court</a>, typically votes with the more liberal justices on gay rights issues. He was in that majority in both the Voting Rights Act case and the marriage equality case.</span></div> <span id="trigger-slidedown" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So one possible explanation for this disparity between the Court’s gay rights cases and its racial justice cases is that Justice Kennedy controls the balance of power on both issues, and he is a conservative on race and a relative liberal on gay rights. At a recent conference, however, a member of the legal team that successfully argued that the Court should strike down DOMA offered a different theory for this disparity — a theory that closely resembles Justice Ginsburg’s analysis. According to Pam Karlan, a Stanford law professor who now serves as the Justice Department’s top voting rights attorney, “very few upper middle class people wake up to discover that their children are poor. Very few citizens wake up to discover that their children are undocumented. <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/06/23/3451717/what-happens-to-liberalism-when-government-is-broken/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Very few white people wake up to discover that their child is black,</a>” but even the most staunchly anti-gay parent can wake up to a phone call from their child telling them that he or she is gay.</span></div> </div>

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padding: 0px; position: static; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; visibility: visible; width: 264px;">Russians Mock Obama With Racist Laser Projection On U.S. Embas...</td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">President Barack Obama received birthday greetings from around the world when he turned 53 years old on Monday, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7iPnao3zqU" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">but some of those wishes weren't exactly well</a>.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In Russia, protesters used lasers to beam a crude, racist image of Obama onto the former U.S. Embassy in Moscow, which is today the embassy's Consular Section. The image showed the president in a birthday hat with a banana going in and out of his mouth followed by projections of the words "Obama" and "happy birthday" in English.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Moscow Student Initiative <a href="https://vk.com/wall-73663964_66" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">took responsibility for the stunt on VK</a>, a social network popular in Russia.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Racially-charged messages aimed at Obama have been cropping up with alarming regularity in Russia. Also on the president's birthday, a banner depicting Obama as the "Three Wise Monkeys" -- see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil -- <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/08/04/russian-birthday-banner-for-president-obama-alludes-to-three-wise-monkeys/" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">was unfurled near the U.S. Consular Section in Moscow</a>, The Washington Post reported.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Images of the banner made the rounds on Twitter:</span></div> <div class="media" style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: black; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;"><a class="photo-link box-0" data-scribe="element:photo" href="http://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/496242027882086401/photo/1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); 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outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;">11:31 AM - 4 Aug 2014</span></a></div> </div> <div class="footer customisable-border" data-scribe="component:footer" style="-webkit-transition: margin-top 0.2s ease-out, padding-top 0.2s ease-out; border-color: rgb(232, 232, 232); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; margin: 2px 10px 0px; min-height: 16px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-top: 11px; position: relative; transition: margin-top 0.2s ease-out, padding-top 0.2s ease-out; zoom: 1;"> </div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In June, <a href="http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/504193.html" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">a series of racially-charged posters were displayed around the city of Perm</a>, with one showing the president with a banana, The Moscow Times reported.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; 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