{"id":1406,"date":"1999-10-10T07:47:28","date_gmt":"1999-10-10T07:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp\/index.php\/1999\/10\/10\/letter-to-the-editor-23\/"},"modified":"2021-06-11T23:13:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T23:13:28","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/1999\/10\/10\/letter-to-the-editor-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 07:47:28 -0700 (PDT)<br \/>From: Neil Vander Linden<br \/>Subject: Letter to the Editor<\/p>\n<p>On September 30 the U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond ruled in my favor in<br \/>a lawsuit concerning the county legislation delegation system in SC.<br \/>You might want to check out the decision at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.emory.edu\/4circuit\/sept99\/982174.p.html\"><u><font color=\"#0000ff\">http:\/\/www.law.emory.edu\/4circuit\/sept99\/982174.p.html<\/font><\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They ruled the county delegation system unconstitutional which may eventually<br \/>lead to the demise of a whole level of government. It is a case which has taken<br \/>eight years to work its way through the court system. Some times we citizens<br \/>can beat government. It should be very interesting to other those who live in<br \/>southern states that still have a county delegation system. i thought<br \/>you might be interested because the system was originally started to<br \/>discrimanate against blacks in the south.&nbsp;&nbsp; Neil Vander Linden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 07:47:28 -0700 (PDT)From: Neil Vander LindenSubject: Letter to the Editor On September 30 the U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond ruled in my favor ina lawsuit concerning the county&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341,"featured_media":7987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reader-forum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-mG","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Letters-to-the-Editor.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2936,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions\/2936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}