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By KC Johnson

In the Durham News, columnist Rob Waters made a passionate case for what appears to be a call to change federal civil rights law to prevent lawsuits against municipalities that abridge defendants? civil rights. Wrote he, ?The lacrosse players were never convicted, never did time. And they?re somehow entitled to millions? Silly me, just trying to be logical.? This has been the most wide-open presidential contest in recent memory, with almost no major issue not finding support from at least one of the major candidates. Yet, to my knowledge, no candidate has embraced Waters? apparent ?logic? and called for this radical reform of federal civil rights law. Waters? column today didn?t go into detail why he wants the law changed (I?m assuming that he wasn?t arguing that while the lacrosse players weren?t entitled to sue under the law, more ?politically correct? victims of municipalities? misconduct should be entitled to such lawsuits; such a position, of course, would be writing discrimination into federal civil rights statutes)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on January 19, 2008 (boomark / email).