The Washington Post documents some of the doings of the great P.R. machine that's geared up to keep the Ledbetter case before the public as a way of demonizing the current makeup of the U.S. Supreme Court. (The usual defenders of judicial independence against oversimplified populist attacks seem to have fallen silent). Still no word about why the Equal Pay Act wouldn't offer a way to sue over current pay differentials, if that's indeed the point of the campaign.
"Exhibit A in Painting Court as Too Far Right"
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Rafael Mangual Project Manager, Legal Policy rmangual@manhattan-institute.org |
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Katherine Lazarski Manhattan Institute klazarski@manhattan-institute.org |