Posted on 09/09/2018 6:33:53 AM PDT by rktman
When the Louisiana State Militia finally arrived at the Colfax courthouse on April 15, 1873, all it could do was bury the bodies. Two days earlier, a large force of white supremacists had taken control of the courthouse from the mostly black faction protecting it. J. R. Beckwith, the U.S. attorney for New Orleans, told Congress that in the aftermath the ground was “strewn with dead negroes,” their bodies plundered by whites who had come to watch the bloodshed. The dead remained “unburied and mutilated,” Beckwith said, until federal troops arrived days later to shovel them into a mass grave.
The conservative majority on the Supreme Court today is similarly blinded by a commitment to liberty in theory that ignores the reality of how Americans’ lives are actually lived. Like the Supreme Court of that era, the conservatives on the Court today are opposed to discrimination in principle, and indifferent to it in practice. Chief Justice John Roberts’s June 2018 ruling to uphold President Donald Trump’s travel ban targeting a list of majority-Muslim countries, despite the voluminous evidence that it had been conceived in animus, showed that the muddled doctrines of the post-Reconstruction period retain a stubborn appeal.
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The Supreme Court Is Headed Back to the 19th Century(Anti Kavannagh piece)>>>>>>>
Well then, with any luck Capital Punishment will be mandatorily instated in every state of the union and its protectorates. Tye electric chair can be lit up with wind and solar though, as a concession to the far out, anti law enforcement , whacko left.They can have the clean zap.
The rats only think they are angry now; wait until the Buzzard croaks.
“When the Louisiana State Militia finally arrived at the Colfax courthouse on April 15, 1873, all it could do was bury the bodies...”
Oh look! There is an eject button. Let me just sit on it.
Well, let’s add one more and take it back to 1860 since the Marxists want a CW so bad.
A solar powered electric chair would take weeks to kill the inmate. And they would die of starvation and dehydration. //sarc
The Dems’ arguments assume that their policies would be supported neither by a Constitutionalist Supreme Court or an elected legislature. That is to say, their policies are both unconstitutional and unpopular.
“”””””””’The rats only think they are angry now; wait until the Buzzard croaks.”””””””””
When that happens the hearings will be hilarious, and extremely vicious. I can’t wait to watch all the splodin’ heads. .
Should read …
When the Louisiana State Militia finally arrived at the Colfax courthouse on April 15, 1873, all it could do was bury the bodies. Two days earlier, a large force of white Democrats had taken control of the courthouse from the mostly black Republican faction protecting it.
There, fixed it...
Oh, you mean the 19th Century when the federal government was around 5% of the GDP and the average American was freer with a better quality of life than the average citizen anywhere in the world? The century where generally, the basis of Supreme Court decisions with a few notable exceptions, was the Constitution unlike the 20th and 21st Centuries where most Supreme Court decisions are blatantly unconstitutional?
You mean that century? Hope to God Kavanauh does take the Court back to Constitutional decisions like the 19th Century.
Listen Democrats: it’s supposed to be a court, not an ongoing Constitutional convention or legislature.
Missing the barf-hurl-puke-diarrhea alert.
In amost all cases they worry about all the SC can do is return a decision to the states or to Congress. Big deal.
When the Louisiana State Militia finally arrived at the Colfax courthouse on April 15, 1873, all it could do was bury the bodies. Two days earlier, a large force of white supremacists had taken control of the courthouse from the mostly black faction protecting it.
The black faction was Republican, the white supremacists were Demwits. Thanks rktman. And to the partisan media shill who wrote the ludicrous op-ed, thanks for playing, racist a-hole.
Yeah, unless you want to further your dislike for the lying POS ‘urinalists’ of the left with their holier than thou know it all we’re better that you attitudes. ;-)
With Murkowski hedging I am not as confident as I was. If she and Collins are no it’s over. 2 GOP defectors will give the red state rats cover. The baby killers are exerting massive pressure on those two.
Weekend at Ruthies?
LOL! Sorry, it’s early and, like I said, the coffee IV ain’t up to speed yet.
Time for The Resistance to pick up their dildos and bongs, and run to the barricades!
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