New York, July 12—The Weber decision of the Supreme Court is classic in its confrontation between sociological engineering and law. The majority of the Court, looking at the text of a law written only 15 years ago, rewrote that law to say that which it would like it to mean. The dissenters (Burger and Rehnquist) reminded their brethren in tones of desperation of something called the separation of powers. Let us go back to 1964.
In 1964, the great Civil Rights Act was passed, Title VII of which forbade any private employer from racial discrimination in handing out jobs.
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