Many Trump judicial nominees won’t affirm the Brown v. Board of Education ruling
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/05/17/many-trump-judicial-nominees-wont-affirm-brown-v-board-ruling-that-concerns-some-legal-experts/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.987199d8d8be
The Supreme Court decision 65 years ago ruling that segregating schools by race was unconstitutional is widely viewed as settled to many Americans. But there is concern among some
in the legal community that that might not exactly be the case.
More than two dozen of President Trump’s judicial nominees have declined to answer whether Brown v. Board of Education was properly decided, and legal experts said that that could
have real implications on education and race in the United States. The most recent example came when Wendy Vitter, who was confirmed Thursday as a federal district judge in Louisiana,
declined to clearly affirm the decision. She said:
“I don’t mean to be coy, but I think I get into a difficult, difficult area when I start commenting on Supreme Court decisions — which are correctly decided and which I may disagree with. If I
start commenting on, ‘I agree with this case,’ or ‘don’t agree with this case,’ I think we get into a slippery slope.”
Responses like Vitter’s are why the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights released a letter this week urging U.S. senators to oppose all judicial nominees (Vitter included) who
refuse to state clearly that the landmark Supreme Court ruling was correctly decided.
Casting doubt on this landmark ruling is like an earthquake under equal protection jurisprudence. Brown embodies the legal foundation on which all other desegregation decisions were
based and the principle on which our federal civil rights laws were premised.
The good ol' days that Trump and his supporters long for: separate but equal facilities so he doesn't have to interact with "the blacks".
It's pretty insane that there's not a reflexive positive affirmation of Brown vs. Education considering its history.
it has brown in the title so i can see them getting a reflex from that
Holy crap, how out of touch are these people? Brown v. Board was decided three generations ago. Gen X-ers, Millennials, and Gen Z have grown up in desegregated schools. Even most Boomers would have been in school when they forced desegregation - and don't forget, a lot of schools were already integrated to begin with.
Like I didn't even realize there were this many people pushing for it. This is like hearing there's a sizable contingent of judges who want to revoke women's right to vote, or start flogging adulterers, or put cocaine back in Coca-Cola. It's trying to revive something 99% of the population never experienced.
Relevant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8RNlkIkvCM
Though I do occasionally fact check beau and he is correct on most accounts I still would say use this as a secondary source not a primary as he does not provide sources of his own for these videos.
It's because the culture of southern confederacy has continued instilling hate in people down here from generation to generation. These people are taught to blame their problems on brown people and the civil war from fucking birth. And Republican politicians keep these people ignorant and racist by systematically destroying the education system. It's only been recently, thanks in large part to the internet, that younger people finally are breaking from tradition. But many of them still don't if they're white, because they become pariahs if they do.
”I don’t want to start a slippery slope by publicly agreeing with a difficult issue like ‘segregation bad’.”
who buys this shit
besides centrist democrat candidates I mean
they want to eliminate the ruling so they can make christian white rich people publically funded schools or something, I have no idea otherwise.
It's a plan decades in the making to reverse everything from the Warren court
The fact that desegregation is a point of contention actually makes me feel ill. The only “slippery slope” is that we are en route to returning to the fucking 60s.
Imagine trying to weasel your way out of saying 'segregation was bad' because of potential fallout.
What the actual fuck is this shit?
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