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.
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decisions that overturned precedent. he s using that as an explanation as to why the supreme court could potentially overturn roe vs. wade. how often does the court overrule existing precedent, and what do you make of those comparisons? so justice kavanaugh was trying to normalize the idea the supreme court would overrule its prior precedent. what he failed to recognize is that the court has never revoked a prior decision recogniing a fundamental right. that is the court has never reversed course and taken away a right from people. what kavanaugh failed to recognition, that plessy, the decision that holding segregation was constitutional represented a failure to give americans rights, where has here the supreme court if it overturned roe would be taking away rights. i want to play for you a part from the mississippi solicitor-general and what he had to say in his arguments on
let s blame the clintons kavanaugh, waver on the importance of precedent against abortion. aborti if you think about somf the most important cases, the most consequential cases in this court s history, there is a string of them were the cases overruled precedent. and it turns out, if the court in those cases had listened and they were presented with arguments in those cases adhered to the president in brown v. board, adhered to plessy, on west coast tell, adhere to atkins and adhere to lock near. and if the court had done that in those cases, the country would be in a much different clip place. the country is already in a much different place because of the six three conservative majority on the supreme court. a lot of american women are terrified.
those cases adhered to precedent in brown v. board, adhered to plessy and adhered to atkins and adhered to lochner. if the court had done that in those cases, you know, the country would be a much different place. all right, so the newest justice trump appointee amy coney barrett, she actually questioned whether so-called safe haven laws which aimed to protect abandoned newborns have now distinguished the burden of pregnancy from the burden of parenthood. watch. it s also focused on the consequences of parenting and the obligations of mother hood that flow from pregnancy. why don t the safe haven laws take care of that problem? it seems to me it focuses the burden much more narrowly. it doesn t seem to follow that pregnancy and parenthood are all part of the same burden. so it seems to me the choice more focused would be between say the ability to get an abortion at 23 weeks or the