I've been doing just that tonight and learned that Clinton Executive Order 13166, which made translation services mandatory in every language, actually went beyond even what the radical 9th Circuit dared suggest five years earlier. The 9th Circuit did not find a claim that language equaled national origin and even suggested it was agnostic regarding translation mandates: "For while the state may not be under any obligation to provide multilingual services and information (emphasis added)." (This irritated Margaret Robertson no end.)
Yet the Clinton Justice Department announced -- a full five years after this ruling -- that such an obligation was required by law and that obligation had existed long before this ruling was made!
A court that could find the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional would certainly have been able to discern this novel theory of language discrimination had it existed.
|posted by Jim on 3:15 AM|
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