The Nation - News from May 21, 1985
Continuing its nationwade campaign to limit affirmative action to remedy job discrimination, the Justice Department sought to overturn hiring and promotion quotas for blacks, Latinos and women in the Chicago police and fire departments. The department filed five motions in three pending cases in U.S. District Court in Chicago. Two government motions were based upon the Reagan Administration’s disputed interpretation of a 1984 Supreme Court rulilng in a Memphis, Tenn., employment case. That ruling, Assistant Atty. Gen. William Bradford Reynolds said, does not empower the courts to use discrimination to fight discrimination.
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