Federal Judge Suspends Local Ferguson-area Election — Will Your Town Be Next?
What’s the story? The election is in a district the census informs is 48.19 percent black, and three of the seven elective seats in question are occupied by blacks. This means that if blacks had any more representation, the racial composition of a majority of those seats would reflect a minority of the population. Nonetheless, the judge, one Rodney Sippel, a federal judge for the U.S. District Court for the eastern and western districts of Missouri, deems an increase in black representation a moral imperative.
The scene of this judicial meddling is the Ferguson-Florissant School District (FFSD) — yes, that’s the Ferguson, of Michael Brown fame. The feds already have compelled the locality to socially re-engineer its police force. And now, resulting from a lawsuit by the ACLU and NAACP, the FFSD has been told it may not hold the election in question — for school board, original scheduled for April...
