Reply #114: Pickering is a SOB... [View All]

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He has no business on the bench!

Pickering has criticized the fundamental "one-person one-vote" principle recognized by the Supreme Court under the 14th Amendment. Also, he has suggested that large deviations from equality in drawing legislative district lines, which the Supreme Court has held presumptively unconstitutional, were "relatively minor" and "de minimis." And, as a judge, Pickering has also criticized or sought to limit important remedies provided by the Voting Rights Act. In addition, in a number of cases involving claims of employment discrimination, Pickering has inserted severe criticisms of civil rights plaintiffs and the use of civil rights statutes, disparagingly stating that the courts "are not super personnel managers charged with second guessing every employment decision made regarding minorities."