Eric Holder: Racial Preferences Needed for … National Security
The Eric Holder Justice Department has filed this brief in the United States Supreme Court defending racial preferences at the University of Texas. (Texas, by the way, is also vigorously defending the racial preferences.) Abigail Fisher, who is white, is challenging race preferences that cost her a slot at the University of Texas law school. Because the racial spoils go to Obama’s most loyal political constituency, people of color, naturally Eric Holder’s Justice Department is defending them by spending your tax dollars paying lawyers to write the brief.
None of that is a surprise. What is surprising is the argument the Justice Department makes in the brief — that racial preferences are vital to national security:
It is a pressing necessity in an era of intense competition in the global economy and ever evolving worldwide national-security threats. The government, moreover, has a vital interest in drawing its personnel — many of whom will eventually become its civilian and military leaders — from a well-qualified and diverse pool of university and service-academy graduates of all backgrounds who possess the understanding of diversity that is necessary to govern and defend the United States.
This might mark the first time the ideologues in the administration have placed national security topmost among their priorities — even if it is a phony argument.
Let’s consider one of the lawyers who signed the brief. Thanks to PJ Media’s Pulitzer-nominated/submitted Every Single One series, we know a great deal about the radical backgrounds of well over 100 new hires in the Justice Department. Sharon McGowan is a new Holder career civil service hire in the Appellate Section of the Civil Rights Division.
Hans von Spakovsky at PJ Media:
Sharon McGowan: Prior to joining the Section, Ms. McGowan spent six years as a staff attorney at the ACLU, working on its Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) & AIDS Project. Her claim to fame there was that she brought a lawsuit against the Library of Congress on behalf of a Special Forces veteran who was denied a job after announcing his/her intention to transition from male to female. The case resulted in a dubious ruling by a hard-core liberal Clinton appointee (James Robertson, who mercifully has since retired from the bench) that Title VII’s prohibition on sex discrimination also protects individuals who are undergoing sex-change operations. Judge Robertson’s decision notwithstanding, I’m fairly confident that’s not what Congress had in mind when it passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
While working at the ACLU, Ms. McGowan co-authored “The Rights of Lesbians, Gay Men, Bisexuals and Transgender People: The Authoritative ACLU Guide.” She also was a contributing author to “Lesbian/Gay Law Notes,” which is published by the Lesbian & Gay Law Association of Greater New York. Earlier in her career, she interned for the National Center for Lesbian Rights. And she remains a frequent speaker on gender identity issues. Here’s a sample of her work.







Hopefully one of Mitt’s first acts as President will be to fire the entire in-Justice Department and start over from scratch. But I wouldn’t count on it.
You know, ages ago I used to work for a gov’t agency that dealt exclusively with the Russians. It is a policy in Russia that when a new President is elected (even if it is a RE-election) the entire cabinet tenders their resignation. This includes all government agency personnel.
Now, it is mostly for show and most of them get their jobs back, but the idea behind it is a sound one. It’s pretty much telling everybody that you have your job at the pleasure of the president – period.
I used to think it wasn’t such a great idea (smacked of totalitarianism) because democrats would fire GOP hires. But now I think they had it right all along – because of democrats.
My blog eviscerates Holder and his minions, exposing them as the race-baiters that they are. Ditto the Radical-in-Chief.
Go to http://www.adinakutnicki.com – ‘Barack Hussein Obama…The Radical-Thug-in-Chief..& His Subversive Underlings…Lurch From One Anti-American Disaster After Another’.
Holder, his henchman Perez – Obama too – belong in jail.
He first has to be elected and given what we are witnessing it is hard to imagine that there is a majority of American voters intelligent enough to make this happen.
National Security?
Yes, I sleep more soundly, knowing that our fleet of B-53 Flying Quotas is on constant patrol.
When the Democrat party was controlled by whites in the South it discriminated against black people. Now that the Democrat party is beholden to blacks in the North, it discriminates against white people. This leopard will never change its spots. And JimK @1 is absolutely right in his prescription.
Everything is more important than intelligence, experience and ambition. When our enemies threaten our security, homosexuals, by virtue of their homosexuality, will stop them in their tracks. Surely our enemies know the how power skin color can be. Except white skin color, of course: our enemies are not afraid of white male heterosexuals.
No one on the Left can explain how diversity helps anyone but them.
How about sending a Black Gay Lesbian to diplomat to every mid east country?
Now would be cool, indeed.
@1.JimK: That’s probably a “logistical” impossibility, nor would it be of much use so long as laws are on the books, and surrounded by case law, not to mention by pending cases, essentially calling for “redistributive discrimination”. (Whew! What a “concept” to have to invent; grizzly, but unfortunately on the mark.)
Our National Security would be served far better if, in each instance of hiring, the candidate were to be the best-qualified in his prospective tasks. Now, if that happened to call for, in some SPECIFIC instance, somebody with “diversity background” beyond other objectively adequate qualifications, then so be it. If no OBJECTIVE case could be made for such a decision, then the government HAS TO BE BLIND on that score. And there’s our problem: define, objectively, such situation(s).
So far as the University of Texas case is concerned, we see the core of our problems: the Government acting as “playing field leveler.” That’s not its business; not under the rule of law calling for equal treatment of individuals. Thus, we see such ludicrous and far-fetched arguments as advanced by Holder and McGowan in an attempt to make things fit which cannot.
Discriminatory laws themselves are the true evil, which no amount of firing or reassigning of lawyers will be able to correct. This needs to be drummed into the new Congress which will convene in January. These laws need to be repealed first, if ever again we wish to aspire to a healthy, “diversity-blind”, culture. Nothing less will do.
DOJ: “Race doesn’t matter, except in those instances when it does.”
Forget Holder – I expect such things from this political animal. What the hell is wrong with the State of Texas???
It’s what universities do these days.
Well, stop it.
Now.
“I’m fairly confident that’s not what Congress had in mind when it passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.”
You can say this for 422432 different things. When will people just learn that the law should be completely scrapped!?
Roger: I concur. It’s not the business of government to level the playing field — so TRUE, unless you’re in a totalitarian state, into which America has been slipping, and rather rapidly since LBJ. It’s time to take on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and dismantle its most pernicious aspects.
Multiculturalism is the problem, not the solution. This constant call for “diversity” is nauseating. I’m not a big fan of Teddy Roosevelt, but his feelings about hyphenated Americans are mine as well. We don’t need ‘em.
When government and its racial demagogues are put out of the business of ensuring some people are more equal than others, we may actually begin to have integration and harmony. The diversity industry has ZERO capability of proving diversity produces ANY benefit to ANYONE, these people merely spout meaningless platitudes. Nevertheless, I believe we took a major step forward when others, not me, elected Obama. Yes, the division this president espouses in race and class is finally wakening more and more to the con job his ideology represents. Perhaps enough people will stop voting for these frauds who appoint criminals like Holder to office, and qualifications based on merit, no matter the person’s color, will begin to achieve what affirmative action could never hope to do. Not their intention, but their effect, given their cynical lawlessness and stupidity. Meanwhile, pray our military weathers the storm, and our security suffers no more than it already does under these radicals.
“I’ll have those niqqers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.” —Lyndon B. Johnson to two governors on Air Force One -
“These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference.”—LBJ
You can find this in Ronald Kessler’s “Inside The White House”
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Democrats, upholding LBJ’s vision for the next 200 years
I believed ol’ Lyndon favored the word “nigrah” as was the custom in the 60′s.
This is one of those things that just boggles the mind. “Diversity” to these people means “lots of people who look and sound differently, and have different backgrounds, who all agree with one another on everything substantial.” The Supreme Court, which is supposedly more diverse now than it was 100 years ago…back then hand justices who’d gone to 5-6 different law schools, and a couple who hadn’t graduated from law school at all. Now, our more “diverse” Supreme Court has nine justices who attended just two law schools, Yale and Harvard. Diversity is in the eye of the beholder, so to speak…
The US civil serpents behave as if their lefty patrons lose an election, they will face a firing squad….they seem just that desperate.
It is no accident that civil serpents/media are lefties…..they are more attracted to that employment melieu than conservatives…who get real educations and then real jobs. It’s just the way it is.
Lying, thieving crooks Nomo’ and Holder must go. We cannot continue on this path to bankruptcy of ideas and wealth just to buy votes for the likes of NOmobama. They must go even if we could afford them.
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…possess the understanding of diversity that is necessary to govern and defend the United States…. These lawyers genuinely believe that classifying people on the basis of race helps defend the nation.
Puke-worthy.
I say it’s racial and other kinds of preferences that have brought certain idiots into positions of power & influence in public life, Eric Holder himself a case in point.
And all the idiots with which idiotlogues surround themselves, like Holder’s appointments at the dept. of (in)justice.
Holder’s boss is not far behind. Vicious Chicago Mob sorts & inveterate liars seem to be the only enduring Obama loyalists.
“I say it’s racial and other kinds of preferences that have brought certain idiots into positions of power & influence in public life…And all the idiots with which idiotlogues surround themselves…”
From a viewpoint of epidemiology you are entirely correct: a virus or parasite lives solely to replicate its own kind. In turn its offspring must eliminate, or at least thwart or deceive, any productive cells which attempt to destroy the infection/infiltration.
In response, the host must often resort to drastic means to expel the invaders. The invaded body must sometimes reply with repulsive measures to expel the destructive parasites within. Fevers, pus and mucus are often byproducts of repelling noxious invaders. The healthy defense mechanism is often then, “Puke-worthy.”
Maybe our Republic needs to start puking…
“Diversity is an elitest term used to give respectibility to acts and policy that would otherwise be deemed as racism” Walter E. Williams, Professor Economics, George Mason University
EPA, FDA, Justice: Obama is wracking up a long list of bureaucracies corrupt beyond redemption. They just need to be defunded, everyone fired, and rebuilt from the ground up with all new people. Then again, there are many bureaus out there duplicating work, especial in the welfare arena. Why not consolidate some while new staff is being brought in? Firing many thousands of unnecessary bureaucrats could only be a good thing.
“The government, moreover, has a vital interest in drawing . . . personnel . . . who possess the understanding of diversity . . . .” The only way that assertion makes sense is to change it to “The government, moreover, has a vital interest in drawing . . . personnel . . . [who are minorities; preferably black, Hispanic or Muslim (but not Asian.]“
Hmm. Eric Holder’s entire tenure as Attorney General is a bizarre chapter in American history.
Doesn’t it say somewhere in the fundamental law of the land, for which Holder is guardian, as executive officer of the pre-eminent officer of the law the Chief Executive, that Americans are EQUAL not only in nature but in law, etc.
If so, wouldn’t racial PREFERENCE overt or covert, or any other legal preference, be illegal, unlawful? Let alone immoral.Even when under rubric “sffirmative action” OR “executive privilege”?
Is this important in a Country of Law? Or is the Law the plaything of any bull in the china shop? Culmination of acceptance of other earlier CHAMGE in lawful protections of equality. Change by putative guardians in THEIR government of Rights of of American citizens. ALL citizens born equal.
So little outrage, so little protest, so little massing on streets and in Congress of concerned citizens that THEIR laws are being turned upside down by “officers of THEIR Law”? That THEIR, the free citizans of the USA, laws are twisted and contorted by these “officers of the law”. That THEIR RIGHTS are being stolen from them by “eminent officers of the law” AND that their representatives in Congress and Judiciary are allowing this theft?
This then is the end/finish/finale of the lawful protections of American citizens at the hands of elected government officials. What happened to “Don’t Tread On Me”?
It’s not needed for security, it’s needed for treason. Diversity is a required element of the dialectical-materialist model for social change, based on the hegelian-dialectic nodes of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. Also known as consensus or dialectic process, the process trespasses borders and boundaries by requiring abandonment of principle for the sake of relationship. A diverse group of people dialoguing to consensus in a facilitated environment is the definition of soviet. This is communist world conquest through dialogue: overcoming resistance though the abandonment of position, obedience to God, parental authority, principles, laws, moral values, individual rights, property rights, a right and wrong conscience, or any other position that gets in the way of relationship, or creates conflict, i.e. gets in the way of communist goals.
Well, if diversity is key to national defense why limit it to the human race…?
Recruit ‘pigs’ to defend us from the Middle East antagonists, prepare alligators / crocodiles, (dragons), to stave off the China threat, Bobcats and Cougars as defense from the South American threats and elephants and rino’s to hold the line against the commie/socialist proclivities of Europe/East Europe.
After all, the “diversity plan” of the Holder brief makes no mention of the ideological interests of the ‘diverse’ which indicates that the National Defense has nothing to do with ‘ideology’, or the principles of the Constitution, that are in need of defense.
November 6th cannot come soon enough, at which point Mr. Romney can then
designate a new attorney general and hopefully begin flushing out these
totally anti-American, anti-Constitutional ‘lawyers’, not to mention
the exit of Holder in the process. Jefferson and the other founders must
be doing flip-flops in their graves to observe the condition of our
Justice Dept. in 2012.
The Justice Dept. clearly needs some integrity, honesty and proper adherence
to the law on so many levels.
Can I be a little more sinister? Obama/Holder and the crew are stacking the deck here. By placing in their people they can run the show. I’ll lay odds that many of these new overlords come from islamic stock!
Eric Holder, a person of color, has fought attempts to secure the Mexican border while providing drug gangs with military weapons. His own example disputes his thesis.
Adams concludes, “Until Congress addresses the hijacking of the bureaucracy through budgetary measures, the echoes of Eric Holder will continue to resonate through a Romney administration.”
I disagree. Yes, that is something that needs to be addressed, but it is not even close to dealing with the real problem. The real problem is two-faceted: 1.) Spiritual, and 2.) Educational.
Spiritual. This nation, as a nation has abandoned her Christian roots, and her God. Plain and simple. Where in her foundational documents, God’s place of Supremacy is clearly manifest, now the mere mention of God and/or His Word, is prohibited in any but the most limited, private manner. How did we get to this point? That leads to the second aspect, education.
Education. Since the beginning of “public” educational efforts in this nation, morally bankrupt and degenerate persons have slowly but steadily diverted the course of education away from genuine “education” in the sciences and arts, to “indoctrination” in immorality and godlessness. Once clearly Christian colleges, have become, over the years, bastions of atheism. These institutions have in turn, educated (or indoctrinated) succeeding generations of new “teachers” who in their turn, have indoctrinated ever more students, at increasingly earlier grade levels, to deny truth, in favor of godless theories posed as “science,” and at first amoral, and subsequently “immoral” value systems based on those pseudo-scientific “theories.” Now, we have kindergarten age children being taught the “goodness” of homosexuality and other perverted lifestyles/beliefs, and not just as an option, but as is the case in California, mandatory. This undermines family/parental authority over children, and criminalizes Christian education by parents. (A recent law in California,”prohibits” under penalty of law, anyone from counseling a sexually confused minor to recognize that that is just what they are, “confused” and not inherently, immutably homosexual, trans-gendered, etc.)
No, we need much more than that Congress change a few budgetary measures and/or political appointments. We need an overall, far-reaching awakening of the Church to pray that God grant the people of this nation repentance and put the unholy minority back in the closet, to awaken the people to righteousness, and to recapture the educational system to return it to educating (vs. indoctrinating), and begin, as citizens to vote only for qualified, moral representatives in all levels of government. Then, perhaps in time, this nation may be saved. Personally, I doubt that God will save this nation, but one can hope and pray that He does extend mercy to her and deliver her from her own evil ways.
Let me get this straight” Eric Holder is saying it is the official policy of the US Government thst minoirities are inferior and must be cared for? I think I heard that argument before, but not since 1865.
hopefully only 3 more months of the lies protecting the stupid!
Color over compitency? Isn’t that what Martin Luther Jr. fought against?
Off topic again, but I hope that people start putting your name forward for Attorney General if Romney wins.
Maybe a long shot, but perhaps not. I want to have an attorney general who actually has some respect for the law and who understands the DOJ.