El acto fallido de Scalia

Owen M. Fiss; Juan Francisco Patzán Sánchez

doi:10.14198/DOXA2024.48.1

Autores/as

Owen M. Fiss Yale University, Estados Unidos
Juan Francisco Patzán Sánchez Corte de Constitucionalidad de Guatemala, Guatemala

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14198/DOXA2024.48.1

Palabras clave:

Reconstrucción, Derechos civiles, Acción afirmativa, Doctrina del proceso político, Autorización previa, Clasificación racial, Impacto dispar adverso

Resumen

El autor realiza un análisis de la jurisprudencia de Antonin Scalia, destacado e influyente jurista del Tribunal Supremo de Estados Unidos, desarrollada para frustrar los principios progresistas destinados a erradicar la estructura de castas raciales y otros vestigios de la esclavitud en Estados Unidos. Las decisiones de Scalia se opusieron a la discriminación positiva en la educación superior, negaron a los negros la protección frente a cambios en los procesos políticos que les perjudicarían y dejaron sin efecto una disposición de la Voting Rights Act of 1965 que exigía a un selecto grupo de jurisdicciones –las más infractoras– solicitar la autorización del gobierno federal antes de instituir nuevos requisitos electorales.

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