Raleigh's Resegregationist School Board Majority Votes to End Economic Diversity Plan in Wake County
Richard Nixon got elected in 1968 by turning the Party of Lincoln into the Party of Apartheid, i. e., by embracing the social policies demanded by a segregationist South that was ready to even change political parties to protect the only social policy that mattered: separation of the races.
In a book that should be required reading in any educational history or policy course on American education, Gerald Grantrecounts how Nixon and his White House thugs, Haldeman and Mitchell, instituted a segregationist and anti-busing litmus test for any judge to be considered for appointment to the Federal bench, including the Supreme Court.
This litmus test would be applied, of course, before any potential judge ever went before the lights of a Senate confirmation hearing. To get to the hearing, in fact, potential judges had to be on the side
In a book that should be required reading in any educational history or policy course on American education, Gerald Grantrecounts how Nixon and his White House thugs, Haldeman and Mitchell, instituted a segregationist and anti-busing litmus test for any judge to be considered for appointment to the Federal bench, including the Supreme Court.
This litmus test would be applied, of course, before any potential judge ever went before the lights of a Senate confirmation hearing. To get to the hearing, in fact, potential judges had to be on the side