change their vote. and you almost wonder if perhaps someone from the supreme court purposely leaked this opinion to get enough public outrage in the coming weeks that maybe one of the justices might change their opinion. that s a possibility here. so, again, this is not a final opinion by the court. we get those in very particular order. we get them when the court announces them. they usually release them at 10:00 on certain mornings. it ll happen over the next eight weeks. the court i have reached tout the court for comment. the court says that they have no comment on this. so, they re not striking this down, but they are not commenting at all. again, this would be one of the most consequential decisions from the supreme court in decades. it is not often they overturn precedent, as roe v. wade, has been, anderson, since the 1970s. you know, we saw, you know, back in 1896, plessy versus plerg son
reporting shows up. you know, our finest hours as a country have come in some ways because of the supreme court and some of our worst. you know, this is an institution that gave us dred scott and plessy and brown versus board of education. i think as you know well the focus on the right side of politics, the conservative side of politics on the court, particularly since eisenhower appointed chief justice warren, you have seen its fruition in the graphic you just showed, the intense view that judgeships matter. it is pretty clear to me that in the popular imagination these judgeships, not just the supreme court, they ve always been hugely important but they took on this particular ideological significance really after the criminal justice decisions, the
naacp legal defense fund. mr. durrall, i want to start with you first. i want to put this map up. we ll just put this map up, and you can see that essentially one district is drawn. terry sewell s district essentially. one district for black people in that state. yet white alabamians are 69% of the population. african americans, black folks are 27%, just shy of 27%. indigenous people, 0.7. asian american, 1.5. two more more races 1.8. you go down the list. latinos, 4.6%. this is not an all-white state, and yet it s governed as if nonwhite voters have no rights. i want you to take us inside these arguments. what justification could these right wing five judges have to make the decision they did other than the plessy justification of we just wanted to do this? i think what justice cavanaugh said which we disagree
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards says he will issue a posthumous pardon for Homer Plessy, who was arrested in 1892 for challenging a ban on Black people sitting in "whites-only" train cars, on Wednesday.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards says he will issue a posthumous pardon for Homer Plessy, who was arrested in 1892 for challenging a ban on Black people sitting in "whites-only" train cars, on Wednesday.