WASHINGTON — Gay men and lesbians may not be excluded from juries based on their sexual orientation, the federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled on Tuesday.During jury selection, lawyers are generally permitted to exclude — or strike — a fixed number of potential jurors without stating a reason. But in 1986, in Batson v. Kentucky, the Supreme Court made an exception for race, requiring lawyers to provide a nondiscriminatory explanation if challenged. Eight years later the justices extended that requirement to gender.The Supreme Court has never addressed strikes based on sexual orientation. On Tuesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit became the first federal appeals court to bar such strikes. Its decision is at odds with one from the federal appeals court in St. Louis, making review by the Supreme Court more likely.“Gays and lesbians have been systematically excluded from the most important institutions of self-governance,” Judge Stephen R. Reinhardt wrote for a unanimous three-judge panel. “Strikes exercised on the basis of sexual orientation continue this deplorable tradition of treating gays and lesbians as undeserving of participation in our nation’s most cherished rites and rituals.”
you know it's a disgrace that so many in control have these concerted efforts to discriminate against other Americans, looks like all the little mantra's on buildings in the Declaration of independence were at the time of there induction into the American manifesto were meant only for the governing few, now it has morphed into the richest few, but aren't they the same?
you would think America patterned itself after the Roman empire where the elite ruling class would be our i% note number 7 on link
who are we we used to be a melting pot, land of milk and honey, "the best country in the world", to now the riches country in the world problem with that assessment is that the 1% is not the country "we the people" are the country but we are not part of the rich or the well off. huddled masses are we laying before the rich in the fetal position or do we believe in us the 98% Nov. will bear that out one way or the other.
Bible says the meel shall inherit the earth which earth the one we make or the one left by the rich who then would live on the moon away from the cancer they leave for us?
