Student Diversity, Indicting a President, and an Altered Environment

I. Student Diversity
Three-quarters in Los Angeles, California schools are poor, and more than seventy per cent of black and Latino children attend schools in which most of the students live in poverty. Forty-three percent of the city's population is composed of white students, yet they account for only fifteen percent of the public-school population. Black and Latino students together make up almost seventy percent of the public school population in the specialized high schools. Asian-American students account for sixteen percent of the enrollment at specialized high schools. Asian-American students tend to receive lower scores on the most subjective parts of college admissions evaluations -- often in ways that correspond to personality stereotypes attached to Asian-Americans. [1]

II. Indicting Sitting President
Ina 75-page opinion, Judge Victor Manero writes that too much weight has been given to the proposition that a sitting president can't be indicted. He says that "the theory has  gained a certain degree of axiomatic acceptance, and the DOJ Memos which propagate it have assumed substantial legal force as if  their conclusion were inscribed on constitutional tablets so etched by the Supreme Court." "The Court considers such popular currency for the categorical concept and its legal support as not warranted." Judge Manero says that the conclusion a sitting President can't be indicted is based on "an unqualified abstract doctrine." Instead, " the presidential immunity theory substantially  relies on suppositions, practicalities... as well as  conjurings of remote prospects and hyperbolic horrors about the consequences to the Presidency and the nation as a whole..."

III. "Severely Altered" Environment
According to the United Nations, humans have "severely altered" two-thirds of the earth's maritime environment. "Each decade we lose ten per cent of the world's sea-grass meadows and dump some four  billions of tons of heavy metals, solvents, toxic sludge, and other industrial wastes into the world's waters." Also, according to the United Nations study, "Humans have accelerated the rate of global species extinction by a factor of 'tens of hundreds of times' more than in the previous ten million years." "Already, humans are expected to force more than a million species into extinction, and, by 2050, to fill the oceans with a greater mass of plastic than there is of fish." [2]

In his article, Ben Taub reports that only half of Africa's population lives within a mile of a functional road. "Deliveries of blood to rural health centers are slow and unreliable; refrigerated medicines go bad before they arrive." "The continent has three per cent of the world's motor vehicles, but account for eighteen per cent of the world's road deaths."

ADDENDUMS:
*As governor of Indiana, Mike Pence signed a law that requires fetal remains of miscarriages and abortions, at any stage of pregnancy, to be cremated or buried. Jia Tolentino says that she "had grown up Baptist in Texas, with the idea that girls should consecrate their bodies for God and for their future husbands." [3]
*House Minority Leader Kevin McCrthy sees nothing wrong with Vice-President Pence staying at a hotel from which Trump profits, even claiming that those resorts were "just like any other hotel." "The president's resorts are hotels he owns." McCarthy says Trump is "competing in a private enterprise." At least 60 military service members have stayed at Trump's Turnberry resort. 
*Diana Ohlbaum, Senior Strategist and Legislative Director for Foreign Policy of the Friends Committee on National Legislation, says that the 180-year-old AUMF has been used to justify 41 military operations in 19 countries.
*President Trump has said that he was blocked from building infrasructure by the Democrats; however, at a joint meeting to build an infrastructure plan, Sen. Schumer bought a 39-page plan, and Trump brought nothing.The Trump staff had prepositioned a podium in the Rose Garden, with spending figures on the Mueller investigation.

Footnotes:
[1] Jelani Cobb, "This Is a Test," The New Yorker, September 16, 2019.

[2] Ben Taub, "Ideas in the Sky," The New Yorker, September 23, 2019.

[3] Jia Tolentino, "All Aunt Lydia's Children," The New Yorker, September 16, 2019.