#plessyvferguson — Public Fediverse posts

I was not previously aware of Justice Harlan "The Great Dissenter" 's prescient dissent on Plessy: "the judgement this day rendered, will, in time, prove to be quite as pernicious as the decision made by this tribunal in the Dred Scott Case" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Marshall_Harlan #JohnMarshallHarlan #DredScott #PlessyVFerguson

@lisagetspolitik
This is SCOTUS right now, and also a whole lot of SCOTUS's from yesteryear.

#DredScott
#Korematsu
#PlessyvFerguson
#BuckvBell
#BushvGore
#CitizensUnited
#BowersvHardwick

There are many, many more but I just got tired of typing hashtags. See Legacy Museum, Montgomery, Ala., for a more complete list of crap decisions