Plessy Decision News Today

>> and let me go back to you, mr. ross. youre the one in the middle of doing these cases. this is what associate justice henry billings brown, this was his logic for separate versus equal back in the plessy decision. he said the most common instance of this separate being fine is connected with the establishment of separate schools for white and colored children which have been held to be a valid exercise of the legislative power, even for the courts of states where the political rights of the c...

Who under that president have had their electoral power diminished in violation of a law this court once knew to buttress all of american democracy. now if you need any indication of just how radical this decision is, chief justice john roberts, whose legal career has been devoted to dismantling the voting rights act, finally just gutting it outright in 2013s shelby decision, he sided with the liberals, accusing his fellow partisans on the court of going too far. in the meantime, litigation will...

Louisianas separate karst act of 1890. plus, he was new orleans shoemaker and part of a group of activists of color known as the citizens committee who volunteered to challenge louisianas law, which resulted in his arrest. plessy sued the judge who upheld the law all the way to the u.s. supreme court. and in 1896, in a 7-1 decision, the court ruled that the separate carrs act did not violate the constitution. its not just what matter whats the court did today, its how they did it. the justice wr...

With is its just too close to the election. what he is essentially saying is even though this court, we sue within being enacted, the court acted with lightning speed and ordered briefing and arguments and a hearing over seven days in january, issued a decision a little more than a week after our seven days of hearings ended and said, you know, were doing everything that we can, that the elections are not close at hand, and that the supreme court disregarded that and as a unit any kind of change...

Text and meaning of the 14th amendment, which guaranteed equal protection. and the supreme court in the shroud versus west virginia case said what is this amendment but that the law shall be the same for the black and the white? and the supreme court unfortunately backtracked from that clear principle in the plessy decision and a horrific decision, which allowed separate by equal. brown versus board corrected that in 1954, of course. corrected it on paper. were still seeking to achieve racial eq...

Really live some of those episodes. >> do you believe, sir that, we are in danger of regressing that far back? >> oh, absolutely. no question about it. lets just look at what happened as we came out of this so-called historical reconstruction and what happened in post reconstruction. if you look at the court decision that dmam 175, serve talks about plessy. but the jim crow loss of the 1880s and 90s came from a supreme court decision coming out of louisiana in 1875. it was that decision that gav...