An alternative areas resolution - equal protection An alternative areas resolution -- Equal Protection (I wrote about this on the blog - see my very first blog post)

The resolution would say:

The United States Supreme Court should strengthen the constitutional protection against race discrimination by overruling one of its decisions which held that a government action/law/statute did not violate the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment.
Cases would include: Milliken v. Bradley (school desegregation), Washington v. Davis (held that policy with disparate impact on blacks was not unconstitutional without evidence of discriminatory intent), Gratz (affirmative action), Shaw v. Reno (racial gerrymandering),, Palmer v. Thompson (holding that city's decision to close all public swimming pools rather than integrate them did not violate the Equal Protection Clause because the city closed all swimming pools "equally").

This topic would be great and you are already familiar with most of the key cases because they tend to be the "landmark" cases in constitutional law. And this would appease the fear that a bunch of list resolutions plus one areas resolution (1st amendment) would inevitably result in a 1st amendment topic. 

posted by Lindsay at 6/02/2006 01:13:00 PM ¶