Politics Triumps Over Law, Again

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Thomas Perez and the U.S. Department of Justice apparently pressured the City of St. Paul, Minn. to withdraw a lawsuit that the SCOTUS had already agreed to hear (and which most observers thought St. Paul would win), weeks before it was to be heard. The lawsuit dealt with the concept of "Disparate Impact". Disparate Impact, as it applies to fair housing, involves a statiscal analysis of a Bank's lending practices. It allows the Justice Dept. to levy big fines (millions of dollars) against banks not because they discriminated against any one minority loan seeker, but because their percentage of loans to various minority groups wasn't as high as Perez and the Justice department thought they should be. In other words if Perez thought minority loans should be 20% and the actual figure was 18%, they'd fine the bank. Most banks didn't want to be labeled as having "discriminated", so they'd just pay up. The Justice dept would then take those fines paid by the banks and give them to politically favored groups.


Perez' case to the democractic mayor of St. Paul was apparently something along the lines of "If you win, it will take an important tool for enforcing fair housing away from us", never mind that it may be illegal.

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Unbelievable. Actually, these days it's not. What a sad state of affairs we're currently in here.

Hey, as long as race baiters like Al Sharpton get invited to the White House, this crap won't change.