By Christopher Caldwell – …In this view, the civil rights movement wasn’t just a reform but a refounding….The real political legacy of the 1960s comes from the Civil Rights Act of 1964….…The new law cut constitutional corners, constraining freedom of association, … drawing the federal government into the running of local elections. It opened the door to new kinds of lawsuits: The U.S. attorney general, for instance, could now file discrimination suits against local school districts. It imposed a degree of federal management on all institutions that received federal money. And it created a vast investigative infrastructure through the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission… Read More
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These excerpts are included to illustrate how the left is transforming our culture, our politics, and our society by outflanking the democratic process through the courts.