sanitation@lemmy.radio to U.S. News@beehaw.org · 15 days agoJohn Roberts issues warning on Supreme Court overruling precedentwww.newsweek.comexternal-linkmessage-square6linkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down10
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minus-squareSmoke@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 days agoOverturning precedent by itself isn’t good or bad. Until Loving vs Virginia, anti-miscegenation laws were established and highly regarded; until Brown vs BoE, the same was true of segregation. The issue isn’t how old the laws are, but what they say.
Overturning precedent by itself isn’t good or bad. Until Loving vs Virginia, anti-miscegenation laws were established and highly regarded; until Brown vs BoE, the same was true of segregation. The issue isn’t how old the laws are, but what they say.