On this episode: Devon addresses the supreme court and justice for 'colored' people.
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Jury decline to charge cops for the death of Breonna Taylor Boyfriend shot at the cops 2 administrative duty | 1 fired charged with wanton endangerment officer hankinson did not shot taylor 2 Officers Shot in Louisville Protests Over Breonna Taylor Charging Decision ... Bureau building, and the authorities declared the gathering a riot 9pm curfew | Invited to church Kentucky's only Black female legislator, State Rep. Attica Scott, arrested on felony rioting charge at Breonna Taylor protest. Scott has sponsored "Breonna's Law", which is legislation that will regulate how search warrants are carried out and will mandate the use of body cameras during searches.
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Seattle ~ Video police officer rolling bicycle over head of a protestor
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Trump - “No transfer - Just a continuation” Peaceful transition of power - 1792 Unsolicited ballots Court Orders Census Counting To Continue Through Oct. 31; Appeal Expected
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RBG - Lie in state at the state capitol
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A partisan fight ensures Stimulus package vs supreme court 6:3 majority of conservatives, there is virtually no urgency to vote for him again Many people feel that the only thing that Trump has gotten right is adding conservatives to the Supreme court Political Death - Confirming a new Justice before the election
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Why is this important to us? Judical Supremecy
Institutionalized White Supremacy | black inferiority | Colored inferiority
1776 ~ Declaration of Independence The Court’s have never acknowledged, apologized, corrected or repair their historical errors against We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
State Battle - North vs South
1857 - Dred Scott vs. John Sanford Black Americans “had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.” Chief Justice Roger B. Taney African Americans were not and could not be citizens Founders' words in the Declaration of Independence, “all men were created equal,” were never intended to apply to blacks
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments
SECTION 1 All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Jim Crow, after the end of Reconstruction (1863-77)
1896 - Homer Plessy v. John Ferguson Plessy was light-skinned—“fair-skinned enough to cause confusion,” June 7, 1892 - boarded a train Louisiana White Car | Conductor removed him May 18, 1896 - “equal but separate” the theory that segregation is not per se discrimination assumption everything is equal Worst Decision - Never Overruled (de facto overruled) Brown v. Board of Education, in 1954, to declare that school segregation violated the equal-protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
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Judicial Supremacy is a problem Supreme Court has the power to interpret the Constitution and establish its meaning for federal, state and local government alike Not given by Constitution constructed over time by political and legal actors throughout the system, from presidents and lawmakers to the judges and justices themselves No atonement for us at for their historical errors
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