Correction: Minor

Back near the end of June, the SCOTUS hit a home run and struck down the racist forced bussing policy of the Seattle School District. For those that don’t remember, the district was busing students from one end of town to the other in order to make sure that the schools were “properly racially integrated”.

They used a formula of tiebreakers that were nearly solely based on race to determine who went to the better schools in the district. You could literally live within a block of the top high school in the district and have your teenager bused to the other end of town to a lesser school because of his or her race.

I said in this post that the district spent posiibly tens of millions of dollars to defend their racist policies. I was wrong.

The law firm David Wright Tremaine was supposedly doing the work “pro bono publico”.

I say supposedly because they presented the Seattle School District with a bill for $1.8 Million last week.

And now the people who were all for defending the racist policy are up in arms that a law firm may want a bit of compensation for seven years of legal counsel that went all the way to the SCOTUS.

All I have to say is that when you write and defend a policy that is morally wrong, you deserve to get billed for your stupidity.

All the district had to do was agree that the policy was wrong and stop forcing it down people’s throats and there would have been no $1.8 Million bill. The winners paid their counsel. The district should do the same.