{"id":191746,"date":"2009-06-29T21:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T02:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/29\/you-can-hear-the-flying-monkeys-spinning-up-their-engines-over-this\/"},"modified":"2009-06-29T21:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T02:03:00","slug":"you-can-hear-the-flying-monkeys-spinning-up-their-engines-over-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/29\/you-can-hear-the-flying-monkeys-spinning-up-their-engines-over-this\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can Hear the Flying Monkeys Spinning Up Their Engines Over This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court just <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/8124873.stm\">overruled the appellate court in the Ricci case<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is not unanticipated.  The right wing of the Supreme Court has been delivering the death of a thousand cuts to affirmative action for years, and they do not have to follow precedent, as the appellate court <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">does<\/span>, and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">did<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Still, expect the wing-nut brigade spinning up their sirens over this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court just overruled the appellate court in the Ricci case. This is not unanticipated. The right wing of the Supreme Court has been delivering the death of a thousand cuts to affirmative action for years, and they do not have to follow precedent, as the appellate court does, and did. Still, expect the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,972,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-justice","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}