How the Supreme Court could scuttle critical fair housing rule

john a. powell quoted in ProPublica, February 8, 2013

powell, who spells his name without capital letters, said this court has shown an eagerness to dismantle civil rights protections even when case law is well established…. “It is not waiting on controversy in the lower courts, which is the normal case. If it strikes down disparate impact that would be a huge change, but the Court is rewriting issues around civil rights and race.”