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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (28498)	2/8/2004 6:53:34 PM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 794501

If the courts are ever to be confronted, it will probably have to be over an issue where they over-reach on the conservative side. Can't see it happening in Goofychusetts over this issue.

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (28498)	2/8/2004 8:55:44 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 794501

The courts can always be ignored. Not over civil rights. The various civil rights acts provide for compensative damages, statutory damages, punitive damages, costs and attorney's fees. Last year or so Congress passed a statute which most of you probably missed, which provides that agencies that get hit for civil rights damages have to take it out of their operating expenses, not out of a general litigation slush fund, as they always did before. Nothing gets a top level bureaucrat's attention like having to explain where the money went. Not quite the same as having it come out of his own personal pocket, but getting there. These days, lawyers would sue ol' Jackson's ass so hard and fast he'd wish he was back shooting Indians. I'd estimate billions, approaching trillions, in damages for the Trail of Tears. With the right jury, and a class action suit, they'd break the Treasury. Not so hard to imagine. According to Wills in "The Negro President," the North opposed Jackson's actions, so all that would have been needed for my hypothetical would be the right venue.