To see how far the racism of CRT has penetrated our legal institutions, consider a ruling by the Supreme Court of Washington that gives a clear advantage to black litigants.
As Hans Bader explains in this post, “But in a truly bizarre ruling, the Washington State Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that it is presumptively racist to characterize litigants as ‘combative’ or ‘confrontational,’ if the litigants happen to be black. Based on this strange conclusion, it ruled that a $9,000 verdict for a black plaintiff was likely inadequate, and had to be overturned at the plaintiff’s request, unless the white woman who was sued could somehow prove the judgment would not have been larger absent its counsel calling the black plaintiff combative. It also ruled by a 7-to-2 vote that it was presumptively racist to point out that three witnesses all used the exact same phrase, as if they were coached, suggesting collusion, because the witnesses happened to be black.”
It’s a bad day for the law when judges decide that the deck should be stacked in favor of people because of their race.
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