The way we talk about the Taney Court and Dred Scott and about the Lochner Court as illegitimate ideological hack partisans is how one day we all will talk about Shelby County and the Roberts Court.
Hell, let’s start now.
Hell, let’s start now.
2/ “In Shelby, Roberts used erroneous data to make claims about rates of voter registration among blacks and whites in 6 southern states...
The data displayed registration gaps had shrunk dramatically.
But some of the numbers in his chart were wrong.”
propublica.org/article/suprem…
The data displayed registration gaps had shrunk dramatically.
But some of the numbers in his chart were wrong.”
propublica.org/article/suprem…
3/ BASIC RACE STATS ERROR:
“Roberts used numbers that counted Hispanics as white, including many Hispanics who weren’t U.S. citizens and could not register to vote, which had the effect of inaccurately lowering the rate for white registration.”
He mixed Latino in with white!
“Roberts used numbers that counted Hispanics as white, including many Hispanics who weren’t U.S. citizens and could not register to vote, which had the effect of inaccurately lowering the rate for white registration.”
He mixed Latino in with white!
4/ @propublica:
Most Hispanics are counted as “white alone” under race. Which is why the Census Bureau provides separate numbers for the category “white non-Hispanic alone,” usually right next to the “white alone” figures...
Most Hispanics are counted as “white alone” under race. Which is why the Census Bureau provides separate numbers for the category “white non-Hispanic alone,” usually right next to the “white alone” figures...
5/
“To those familiar with Census Bureau data, the difference is well understood. Researchers convert the Hispanic-origin ethnicity into its own racial group when analyzing disparities.
***Roberts’ chart, however, did not use generally accepted definitions of race.***”
“To those familiar with Census Bureau data, the difference is well understood. Researchers convert the Hispanic-origin ethnicity into its own racial group when analyzing disparities.
***Roberts’ chart, however, did not use generally accepted definitions of race.***”
6/ I’m sorry, this error does not happen because of a good-faith mistake on stats and good-faith curiosity about race in America.
Any lawyer genuinely concerned about race and familiar with race stats knows about this basic coding issue on “white” and “non-Hispanic white.”
Any lawyer genuinely concerned about race and familiar with race stats knows about this basic coding issue on “white” and “non-Hispanic white.”
7/ In the last century, SCOTUS’s worst rulings were:
1) Buck v Bell
2) Korematsu
3) McCleskey
4) Bowers
5) Shelby County
6) Husted
7) Free Enterprise/Seila nonsense
(Sorry, Kelo, Citizens United & Bush v Gore don’t make my list)
That’s a lot of Roberts Court & 3 JGR opinions.
1) Buck v Bell
2) Korematsu
3) McCleskey
4) Bowers
5) Shelby County
6) Husted
7) Free Enterprise/Seila nonsense
(Sorry, Kelo, Citizens United & Bush v Gore don’t make my list)
That’s a lot of Roberts Court & 3 JGR opinions.
8/ I can’t believe I forgot this Roberts whopper in 2007:
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”
Parents Involved
Now pair that line with Roberts’s racial ignorance & stats ignorance in Shelby.
H/t @dom_dont_tweet
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”
Parents Involved
Now pair that line with Roberts’s racial ignorance & stats ignorance in Shelby.
H/t @dom_dont_tweet
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