The Roberts Court Takes a Page from Plessy v. Ferguson

Source: Mother Jones · Bias: Left

Summary

Nothing is new and history repeats. When the Supreme Court delivered a death blow to the 1965 Voting Rights Act last month, endangering the project of multiracial democracy that flowed from the Second Reconstruction of the 1960s, it did so by using many of the same logical—and illogical—devices the high court deployed to help end […]

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The Roberts Court Takes a Page from Plessy v. Ferguson

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Nothing is new and history repeats. When the Supreme Court delivered a death blow to the 1965 Voting Rights Act last month, endangering the project of multiracial democracy that flowed from the Second Reconstruction of the 1960s, it did so by using many of the same logical—and illogical—devices the high court deployed to help end […]