The Supreme Court yanked away rights before, when it read civil rights enforcement right...
Library of CongressWhen news of President Kennedy’s murder reached a young Hunter S. Thompson at home at Owl Farm, the Rocky Mountains retreat later known as base camp for gonzo journalism, he penned a boyhood friend from Louisville that a new era had begun.dated Nov. 22, 1963. “I was not prepared at this time for the death of hope, but here it is.”That sentiment has been roiling my social media timelines for the past couple of weeks, thanks to a series of rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court.
This may seem like uncharted territory. But as a nation, we have been here before. At the end of the Civil War, and then all over again in the 1960s, we’ve seen these same arguments over the 14th Amendment play out. That history, which is at the heart of America’s struggle to build a more perfect union, offers both good news and bad for anyone who, like me, desperately wants to believe in America and the rule of law and the court itself.
The three amendments were also the product of bitter infighting within the Party of Lincoln. President Andrew Johnson and others sympathetic to the South saw the Radical Republicans who seized control of Congress during the Reconstruction era as too singularly focused on protecting Black rights. They loathed Sen. Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, for instance, who insisted the amendments authorize Congress to pass whatever law necessary to enforce them.
U.S. Sen. Lyman Trumbull of Illinois explained the act’s purpose just days after the 13th Amendment was certified:Trumbull said as he introduced the bill
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