Sentences with phrase «invidious discrimination»

Moreover, public manifestation by a judge of the judge's knowing approval of invidious discrimination on any basis gives the appearance of impropriety under Canon 2 and diminishes public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary, in violation of Canon 2A.

Membership of a judge in an organization that practices invidious discrimination gives rise to perceptions that the judge's impartiality is impaired.

In addition, it would be a violation of Canons 2 and 2A for a judge to arrange a meeting at a club that the judge knows practices invidious discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, or national origin in its membership or other policies, or for the judge to use such a club regularly.

Invidious discrimination exists when inherent equals — for example, all human beings — are treated unequally based on sub-categories that bigots assert to reduce the moral status of the disfavored classes, placing them beneath the favored.

They introduce invidious discriminations and encourage sleight of hand in creating sundry forms of «diversity» other than diversity of thought.

That is a form of invidious discrimination ¯ just like discrimination against same - sex partners in historic marriage law.

It seems to me just as unarguable that federal civil rights enforcement is warranted when actual acts of invidious discrimination take place, not when bean counters calculate that members of one group are being hauled to the principal's office more often than members of another group.

Free textbooks, like tuition grants directed to students in private schools, are a form of tangible financial assistance benefiting the schools themselves, and the State's constitutional obligation requires it to avoid not only operating the old dual system of racially segregated schools but also providing tangible aid to schools that practice racial or other invidious discrimination.

It is striking to note that nowhere... is any evidence presented that harassment or invidious discrimination actually exists to any significant degree in the legal profession — or that, if it does exist, it is such a serious and widespread problem that the Model Rules must be amended.

According to JUSTICE STEVENS, our view of consistency «equate [s] remedial preferences with invidious discrimination,» post, at 246, and ignores the difference between «an engine of oppression» and an effort «to foster equality in society,» or, more colorfully, «between a «No Trespassing» sign and a welcome mat,» post, at 243, 245.

We expect most lawyers are sympathetic with the general goals of ensuring equal access to justice and eliminating racial and other forms of invidious discrimination from the legal profession.

When a judge determines that an organization to which the judge belongs engages in invidious discrimination that would preclude membership under Canon 2C or under Canons 2 and 2A, the judge is permitted, in lieu of resigning, to make immediate and continuous efforts to have the organization discontinue its invidiously discriminatory practices.

A judge should not hold membership in any organization that practices invidious discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, or national origin.

They have portrayed our businesses as purveyors of invidious discrimination.

To succeed, more time is needed to convince the rest of American culture that opposition to homosexuality and same - sex marriage is akin to invidious discrimination.

To make a case, an employee must accuse an employer of anti-social behavior (invidious discrimination or harassment), and to defend a case the employer must accuse the employee of misconduct or incompetence.

Thus the mere absence of diverse membership does not by itself demonstrate a violation unless reasonable persons with knowledge of all the relevant circumstances would expect that the membership would be diverse in the absence of invidious discrimination.