Trump Administration Cites Segregation-Era Ruling To Defend Its Travel Ban
Source: MSN/Huffington Post
WASHINGTON ― In a brief defending its ban on citizens from six Muslim-majority countries, President Donald Trumps Justice Department approvingly cited a segregation-era Supreme Court decision that allowed Jackson, Mississippi, to close public pools rather than integrate them.
In the early 1960s, courts ordered Jackson to desegregate its public parks, which included five swimming pools. Instead, the city decided to close the pools. Black residents of Jackson sued. But in 1971, the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, decided that closing the pools rather than integrating them was just fine.
The dissents, even at the time, were furious. May a State in order to avoid integration of the races abolish all of its public schools? Justice William O. Douglas asked in his dissent .
I had thought official policies forbidding or discouraging joint use of public facilities by Negroes and whites were at war with the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, Justice Byron White wrote in another dissent. Our cases make it unquestionably clear, as all of us agree, that a city or State may not enforce such a policy by maintaining officially separate facilities for the two races. It is also my view, but apparently not that of the majority, that a State may not have an official stance against desegregating public facilities and implement it by closing those facilities in response to a desegregation order.
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Wow. The U.S. Government relying on pro-segregation case law? The racists have are truly trying to bring us back.
ck4829
(35,096 posts)The practice of bathing had expanded to include swimming for exercise, but water retained the longstanding symbolic link with purity, Gutman wrote. Swimming pools became places where those seen as impure or polluted would be excluded (even though water had to be sanitized in order to be pure). When pressed to integrate, white operators protested pools would have to be emptied, scrubbed clean and refilled with fresh water after black children swam in them.
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So they were OK with black people handling their food and cleaning their homes, but not being in the same sanitized pool as them? That... makes sense. Not.
Judi Lynn
(160,656 posts)cstanleytech
(26,347 posts)but they deliberately singled out specific areas due to peoples religion because thats what Trump vowed to do and then he did it.
benld74
(9,911 posts)Then I was expecting and read more then I was hoping to read either Borowitz's name or The Onion.
But alas no such luck
Remembering who Dept Justice is headed
This case reference does NOT surprise in the least.
I just sadly shake my head and pray for this country.
cstanleytech
(26,347 posts)administration claim they can now sell people who are in prison as slaves claiming that the thirteenth amendment allows them to sell them as part of their punishment for committing a crime.
tblue37
(65,524 posts)imprisoned in the US.
cstanleytech
(26,347 posts)on the auction block and the new owners can treat them however they wish and not pay them anything at all.
Right now atleast they earn something and at least have some legal protections while serving their time which is surely better than having zero protections as a slave.
ATL Ebony
(1,097 posts)cstanleytech
(26,347 posts)elleng
(131,292 posts)spiderpig
(10,419 posts)As Rachel Maddow said tonight, "108 days and already we are at this level of coverup and scandal."
DallasNE
(7,404 posts)Seriously. Here the ruling was that Jackson could close all of its pools. To apply now Trump would have to be banning immigration from all nations and not just Muslim's from 7 Muslim majority nations. Maybe Dred-Scott will be cited next.
iluvtennis
(19,897 posts)Crash2Parties
(6,017 posts)May a State in order to avoid integration of the races abolish all of its public schools?
- Have you seen the Trump Administrations plans for public schools?