The monument honors the Augusta-born former chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, who was part of the majority in the Plessy v. Ferguson decision that maintained racial segregation with the ‘separate but equal’ doctrine.
WASHINGTON (NBC News America/Pacnews) — The U.S Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider whether American Samoans have full U.S citizenship at birth, a dispute that would have given the
The Supreme Court draft opinion on abortion rights heaps praise on the late Justice Byron ‘Whizzer’ White, who once seemed on the verge of being forgotten.
<p>Alito's invocation of Plessy v. Ferguson as a reason to discard precedent is galling because his opinion would destroy the kind of protection under law that Homer Plessy actually sought. </p>