
Since Wendy Long of the Judicial Confirmation Network saw fit to bring up Plessy v. Ferguson in relation to the Sotomayor nomination (after we brought it up in relation to the Prop 8 decision), we thought we’d take a moment to revisit this week’s featured Supreme Court decision.
Long, shouting at Chris Matthews, was trying to demonstrate that justice doesn’t require a diverse court:
An all-male white court overturned Plessy v. Ferguson in Brown v. Board of Education.
As our own Serolf Divad noted, this overlooks the historical curiosity that an all-male white court gave us Plessy in the first place — a legacy that lasted almost sixty years.
But what caught our attention was her additional remark:
What happened was, Plessy was a lawless decision. Brown is what the Constitution, and all men being created equal, and the aspirations of our Declaration of Independence, are all about.
Lawless?
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