Law Practice
Sep. 6, 2002
Toppling Rights
There is no area in which the individual predilection of judges more consistently subverts the rule of law, common sense and basic moral decency than civil rights. In the 19th century, biased interpretation by courts of the 14th Amendment and post-civil war federal civil rights legislation sank the lofty notions of equality, privileges and immunities and Due Process into Jim Crow laws, despair and nothingness.
Robert L. Bastian Jr.
Partner, Bastian & Dini
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Phone: (310) 789-1955
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Email: robbastian@aol.com
Whittier Law School
There is no area in which the individual predilection of judges more consistently subverts the rule of law, common sense and basic moral decency than civil rights. In the 19th century, biased interpretation by courts of the 14th Amendment and post-civil war federal civil rights legislation sank the lofty notions of equality, privileges and immunities and Due Process into Jim Crow laws, despair and nothingness. It has been the same with all civil rights innovations since.
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