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December 11, 2010
Obama Administration Supports Racist Akaka Bill
Topics: Political News and commentariesEric Holder and Ken Salazar have sent letters to Sens. Reid andMcConnell, expressing the Obama administration's "strong support" for the Akaka bill. But, as Roger Clegg aptly notes over at NRO, that's no surprise ... since (a) the bill is entirely consistent with the administration's decidedly un-colorblind approach to civil rights,and (b) Senator Obama supported the bill when he was in Congress:
Still, the letters are surprising, in that they make no attempt to address the bill's overwhelming and fundamental constitutional problems, instead assuming the conclusion by arguing that, since Indians have Indian tribes, therefore all "indigenous groups" should have an Indian tribe.On the other hand, since when did Eric Holder and Barack Obama ever consider themselves constrained by a little thing like the Constitution?Actually, maybe this isn't so surprising, since the constitutional objections to the bill are really unanswerable.
Posted by Richard at December 11, 2010 11:45 AM
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