When it became apparent that Trump's radical judges would flat out refuse to state that Brown v. Board was correctly decided and should remain the law of the land, Senator Booker began asking that question in his written questionnaire to nominees. The results were horrifying.
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In the same way that conservative jurists have spent four decades chipping away at Roe v. Wade, there is the ever present threat that the radical judges Trump and McConnell have packed the courts with may chip away not at the core holding of Brown but at the principle behind it.
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@Sifill_LDF puts it, Brown v. Board anchors our very conception of modern American democracy. "Nominees either support Brown, the rule of law and equality under the law, or they do not. And if they do not, they put our very democracy at risk."https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/if-judicial-nominees-dont-support-brown-v-board-they-dont-support-the-rule-of-law/2019/05/12/d12c542a-734d-11e9-8be0-ca575670e91c_story.html …Näytä tämä ketju
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Lewis Powell's memo sought to do so. He got on SCOTUS and sold congress to K Street. Libertarians (ala Federalist Society) Anarcho-Syndicalists (States' rights libertarians) & Theocrats like Barrett are the L.A.S.T. 5 GOP judges (from a POTUS that lost)
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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