Bustard Race Flashcards
Arizona’s S.B. ……..(no.) anti immigration law.
What did it require police to do?
S.B. 1070
It required police to determine the immigration status of someone arrested or detained when there is ‘reasonable suspicion’ they are not in the US legally.
It was up help by SC.
Proposition……..(no.) California banned Affirmative Action
209
What did the Fair Sentencing Act do?
Reduce disparity in sentencing for crack and powder cocaine.
Difference in racial sentencing because of differences in uses,
Plessy V Ferguson ……..(year)
1896
Separate but equal
Little Rock Nine - Arkansas 1957 ?
Forced integration of black pupils into white only schools.
Civil Rights Act……(year)
What did it do?
1964
Prohibited discrimination of all kinds based on colour, race, religion, nationality.
Voting Rights Act …….(year)
What did it do?
1965
Literacy tests, poll taxes and other requirements used to restrict black voting were made illegal.
Bakke……..(year)
What did it do?
1978
Quote system was too rigid.
Gratz v. Bollinger …….(year)
What did it do?
2003
Couldn’t have mechanistic approach of giving additional marks just due to ethnicity.
Grutter v. Bollinger………(year)
What did it do?
2003
‘You can use race as a factor but not the factor’
Couldn’t set aside places.
Opinions on Affirmative Action:
Sandra Day O’Connor?
Should be used but it may well be in another 25 years time it may not be needed as it achieved what it set out to do so.
Opinions on Affirmative Action:
John Roberts?
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race of race is to stop discrimination on the basis of race.
In the current congress there are …. black house members and ……. black senators.
46 representatives.
3 senators.
In 2009, services provided to illegal immigrants, incl. incarceration, cost the state of Arizona an estimated $……billion.
$12.7 billion
What are Jim Crow laws?
The collective for any laws which continue to restrict minority rights.