As I said in a comment earlier today I expect the right wing to scout out a case to start whittling down Brown v. Board of Education, probably starting with tax money going to private, usually unaccountable religiously affiliated schools. The US Supreme Court several years ago said state tax money going to religious affiliated schools did not violate the constitutional restriction on endorsing a religion. In fact creating a legal money laundering scheme only for this situation. By sending tax money to parents rather than directly from the state to the school, the money was washed of any connection to state funds.
In NC, the state court took a slightly different route since the state constitution says tax money can only be spent on public education. Their take was all education was a public good so that Baptist school with 40 students in unused Sunday school classrooms was in fact educating the public.
But neither court, intentionally, addressed the discrimination aspects seen in almost all church related schools. Insisting you attest to being a Christian, your parents are hetero, and just the proliferation of church related resources available that are screened against evil ideas like evolution.
So as NC has increased state funding from under $60 million for these private school "scholarships" several years ago and restricted it to lower income families, plans are to boost it to up to $800 million in just a few more years, eliminate the income cap, and greatly increase the amount of the scholarship. While doing nothing to increase that virtually non-existent accountability or requirement to follow discrimination laws.
So I think this will be the first crack at cracking Brown, with this Supreme Court and a recent return to a Republican majority in the state court. Basically saying religious freedom means you can still take massive amounts of tax money but ignore state and federal laws on discrimination and provisions for handicapped students. Just like the Court whittled down Roe until they repealed it, we will see years of other cuts to Brown, like privately owned but public lodging like they did with Hobby Lobby denying women contraceptive care on their company health insurance. Despite being a registered for profit organization the court said since it was closely held by one family their religious objections trumped their need to obey federal laws. Then private equity firms can do the same thing saying "look at our name. Private!" As such firms spin off of corporations controlled by Koch brothers, Musk, or other billionaire controlled companies. Ending the need to obey discrimination laws they find tedious.
The Masterpiece Cake, Trinity Lutheran, 303 Creative, and Espinoza decisions indicate the trajectory the court wants, and you are 100% correct in your analysis IMHO.
I lived in Richmond for four years. Every morning I walked through Capitol Square on my way to work. Capitol Square in Richmond is littered with statues of Old White Dudes. There is also a more recent monument dedicated to the Civil Rights movement that includes statues of many of the people who initiated one of the court challenges that was eventually folded into Brown vs Board of Education.
The House GOP, Alito, and Thomas probably look at this anniversary of Brown v Board the same way they look at remembering 9/11, Pearl Harbor, or FDR's election.
Frank Bruni, opining on the young people who may not be voting this year, thinks young people aren't quite grasping the magnitude of this election. I suspect if Trump wins, they'll figure it out pretty quickly. Unfortunately, once you go down this fascist path, there won't be any coming back for a very long time.
I see that for the NYT, May 18, 1954, was worthy of THREE commie stories. Amusing: "Soviet Bids Vienna Cease 'Intrigues.'" Forget it, Jake. It's Vienna.
Start with Charter Schools. If we cannot divide well enough racially, perhaps we can do it economically. What's it going to take to keep my kid from contact with THEM here in the land of the free?
FWIW - my eighth grade teacher in northeast New Jersey explained all this to us back then and told us that we would be encountering "coloreds" and we must not make friends, but we should always be polite to them. 1955
I voted for Joe Biden in the SC Democratic primary in 2019, and we turned the tide, so that everyone could be ridin' with Biden in 2020. You're welcome, America!!!!!!
At the time, I was relieved, because the moderate vote was being split by so many candidates, which was allowing Bernie Sanders to take the lead, and I KNEW there was no way Bernie was going to win a general election.
Ta, Dok.
As noted earlier; either everyone has rights, or no-one does. How hard is that to understand?
Some White people don't want anyone else to have rights.
It's really that simple - and the more of us who wrap our minds around it really being that simple, the better off we'll.all he, I submit
https://youtu.be/u5PUpcx80mw?si=ZlDtlytcEtcJmVyO
As I said in a comment earlier today I expect the right wing to scout out a case to start whittling down Brown v. Board of Education, probably starting with tax money going to private, usually unaccountable religiously affiliated schools. The US Supreme Court several years ago said state tax money going to religious affiliated schools did not violate the constitutional restriction on endorsing a religion. In fact creating a legal money laundering scheme only for this situation. By sending tax money to parents rather than directly from the state to the school, the money was washed of any connection to state funds.
In NC, the state court took a slightly different route since the state constitution says tax money can only be spent on public education. Their take was all education was a public good so that Baptist school with 40 students in unused Sunday school classrooms was in fact educating the public.
But neither court, intentionally, addressed the discrimination aspects seen in almost all church related schools. Insisting you attest to being a Christian, your parents are hetero, and just the proliferation of church related resources available that are screened against evil ideas like evolution.
So as NC has increased state funding from under $60 million for these private school "scholarships" several years ago and restricted it to lower income families, plans are to boost it to up to $800 million in just a few more years, eliminate the income cap, and greatly increase the amount of the scholarship. While doing nothing to increase that virtually non-existent accountability or requirement to follow discrimination laws.
So I think this will be the first crack at cracking Brown, with this Supreme Court and a recent return to a Republican majority in the state court. Basically saying religious freedom means you can still take massive amounts of tax money but ignore state and federal laws on discrimination and provisions for handicapped students. Just like the Court whittled down Roe until they repealed it, we will see years of other cuts to Brown, like privately owned but public lodging like they did with Hobby Lobby denying women contraceptive care on their company health insurance. Despite being a registered for profit organization the court said since it was closely held by one family their religious objections trumped their need to obey federal laws. Then private equity firms can do the same thing saying "look at our name. Private!" As such firms spin off of corporations controlled by Koch brothers, Musk, or other billionaire controlled companies. Ending the need to obey discrimination laws they find tedious.
The Masterpiece Cake, Trinity Lutheran, 303 Creative, and Espinoza decisions indicate the trajectory the court wants, and you are 100% correct in your analysis IMHO.
I lived in Richmond for four years. Every morning I walked through Capitol Square on my way to work. Capitol Square in Richmond is littered with statues of Old White Dudes. There is also a more recent monument dedicated to the Civil Rights movement that includes statues of many of the people who initiated one of the court challenges that was eventually folded into Brown vs Board of Education.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Civil_Rights_Memorial
Wait, isn't this just silly... since the SCOTUS' MAGA majority assures us we live in a 'post racial' society now.
SCOTUS' MAGA majority shall eat my farts and enjoy it.
The House GOP, Alito, and Thomas probably look at this anniversary of Brown v Board the same way they look at remembering 9/11, Pearl Harbor, or FDR's election.
At least they achieved Leonard Leo's lifelong dream of overturning Roe V Wade.
Wonder if Alito flew his flag upside down to protest Biden's obvious attempt to get the black vote and rig another election?
OK...that was a tortured way to get in a dig at Justice Ivory to Thomas' Ebony but I had to try.
Frank Bruni, opining on the young people who may not be voting this year, thinks young people aren't quite grasping the magnitude of this election. I suspect if Trump wins, they'll figure it out pretty quickly. Unfortunately, once you go down this fascist path, there won't be any coming back for a very long time.
Same thing with people who didn't REALLY think Roe would be overturned.
Coming from the same Frank Bruni who endlessly slimed Al Gore in 2000...
That was 24 years ago. Maybe he's learned his lesson.
This is why Alito flew the flag upside down.
So... 70 years since the end of racism?
/s
The Pope thinks the Confederates have been wilding so hard that the Doctrine of Discovery needs to be repealed
I agree with him
https://youtu.be/u5PUpcx80mw?si=ZlDtlytcEtcJmVyO
Is he trashing the Supremes? Because if there was a good day to trash the supremes....
If you're wondering about "the divine nine" it doesn't refer to the Supreme Court, it refers to nine black fraternities at HBCUs.
I meant the supreme court that gave us the ruling that brown had to overturn.
When I heard "divine nine" at first I thought it was a joke about our shitty Supreme Court. It took me a while to figure out it was fraternities.
So much COMMUNISM on that front page!
And so so many fonts.
Why does Biden have to divide us by asking for equality?
-GOP
I see that for the NYT, May 18, 1954, was worthy of THREE commie stories. Amusing: "Soviet Bids Vienna Cease 'Intrigues.'" Forget it, Jake. It's Vienna.
Maybe someone saw a Third Man.....
Communist arms! Vienna intrigues! Cats and dogs living together!
Start with Charter Schools. If we cannot divide well enough racially, perhaps we can do it economically. What's it going to take to keep my kid from contact with THEM here in the land of the free?
FWIW - my eighth grade teacher in northeast New Jersey explained all this to us back then and told us that we would be encountering "coloreds" and we must not make friends, but we should always be polite to them. 1955
Jesus.
I went to a segregated school...in 1965. In Rome, Georgia, home of the Marjorie Taylor Green.
I voted for Joe Biden in the SC Democratic primary in 2019, and we turned the tide, so that everyone could be ridin' with Biden in 2020. You're welcome, America!!!!!!
Thank you for your service.
It was tough work, but someone had to do it.
Don't undervalue it. It's important.
At the time, I was relieved, because the moderate vote was being split by so many candidates, which was allowing Bernie Sanders to take the lead, and I KNEW there was no way Bernie was going to win a general election.