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You can't get to that end until you start making decisions that put people in those positions so that becomes commonplace. Is it better than it used to be? Yes. Are we where we need to be? No. In America, in the year 2022, race and gender matter because so many people seek to exclude rather than include. Therefore the inclusion must be purposeful.

 

The accusation is the confession

 

You mean those people who are supposed to be entitled to equal rights and consideration under the law, but who for decades have been observably and statistically not afforded the same rights?

The Republicans are both quietly and quite openly and overtly espousing and enacting discriminatory policy and law, pandering to the white vote, and they have for years.

 

I bet Marshall wishes he had stayed home, even if this does gain him some votes back home in Alabama.

 

Women members of corporate boards, let alone CEOs. Black women in high office of any sort.

Members of the Supreme Court who were not white men.

 

Yes. Civil RICO is a thing. But it's very complicated. You have to prove a pattern of underlying fraudulent activity by the defendants that caused you damages. I wrote about a case recently where someone claimed her inheritance from an uncle with dementia who died without a will was reduced because her cousin and some of his associates engaged in fraudulent activities to gain control of their uncle's company, transfer it out of his ownership (and ultimately his estate) and give themselves most of the shares (and the water rights that were its most valuable asset), diminishing the value of his estate when it passed through intestacy.

In her case she couldn't proceed under civil RICO because some of the other fraudulent activity the cousin and his pals engaged in (of which she wasn't directly a victim but which served as a predicate act for purpose of establishing a "pattern" or "criminal enterprise") involved securities fraud and there's a securities fraud exception to civil RICO -- the idea being that Congress provided adequate remedies for fraud in purchase and sale of securities through separate securities laws.

 

So, the law firm appears to be scrubbing some of their online footprint.

Huh.

Anyway, this gentleman be trying to do the RICO for Donald:

 

dude wrote a book about the old days

What Makes Trump Tick: My Years with Donald Trump from New York Military Academy to the Present by Peter Ticktin: New (2020) | GF Books, Inc.

my god

/nixonvoice

 

ABC News reporter in Brussels asked Biden if he was being too quick to rule out World War 3 (direct military conflict with Russia). It's no lie, American elite news media really does love war. Also reporter is an idiot.