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"Former trooper fired for KKK ties to argue for job back"

"Former trooper fired for KKK ties to argue for job back": The Omaha World-Herald today contains an article that begins, "Nebraska's public policy against racism should bar reinstating a state trooper who joined a group affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan, a state attorney told the Nebraska Supreme Court on Tuesday. Private citizens are free to think what they want and free to join racist groups, Assistant Attorney General Thomas Stine told the court. But the state has the right to set terms of employment for state troopers."

And The Associated Press provides this report on yesterday's oral argument.

Yesterday, the Office of the Attorney General of Nebraska issued a news release headlined "Attorney General's Office Presents Oral Arguments in Former Trooper Tied to KKK Case."

Full post as published by How Appealing on March 05, 2008 (boomark / email).