I acknowledge SCOTUS as the arbiter of laws in the land.
I do not acknowledge them as a
moral authority. Nor do I necessarily
agree with their rulings, even though I have granted they have the power to do such things.
Sometimes the power is abused, as with the recent decision to leave the life sentence intact.
Here, then, is another in the long history of SCOTUS' making unjust decisions.
From yesterday:
Jerry Mitchell
1tm8 Spheshnonsoreardmus ·
On this day in 1898, just two years after ruling “separate but equal” was constitutional, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled there was no racial discrimination in Mississippi’s 1890 Constitution, which required all voters to pay poll taxes and pass literacy tests. This ruling came despite the framers of the new state Constitution publicly proclaiming how these changes would disenfranchise Black voters, ensuring and preserving white supremacy. When White Republican lawmaker Marsh Cook of Jasper County spoke out and urged Black voters to organize against this plan, he was assassinated. “The heartless killing,” one newspaper wrote, “did more to create a sentiment favorable to a federal election law than the thousands of political murders in which Afro-Americans were the victims, that have taken place in the South since Reconstruction times.” Many Southern states followed Mississippi’s lead, adopting similar constitutions.
That the assassination of Marsh Cook pushed voters to support federal election law reform is both appreciated and yet revolting.
Again.
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