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1857
Dred Scott v. Sandford was a highly controversial case that intensified the national debate over slavery. The case involved Dred Scott, a slave, who was taken from a slave state to a free territory. Scott filed a lawsuit claiming that because he had lived on free soil he was entitled to his freedom. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney disagreed, ruling that blacks were not citizens and therefore could not sue in federal court. Taney further inflamed antislavery forces by declaring that Congress had no right to ban slavery from U.S. territories.
1896
Plessy v. Ferguson was the infamous case that asserted that “equal but separate accommodations” for blacks on railroad cars did not violate the “equal protection under the laws” clause of the 14th Amendment. By defending the constitutionality of racial segregation, the Court paved the way for the repressive Jim Crow laws of the South. The lone dissenter on the Court, Justice John Marshall Harlan, protested, “The thin disguise of ‘equal’ accommodations…will not mislead anyone.”
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These are also two cases that were decided by the US Supreme Court. It is apparent that our Supreme Court gets it wrong at times and sanctions oppression on the people of the US. Hopefully this nasty decision that seemingly allows Cops to behave badly and just say "I was threatened" so they can pretty much do anything they want anytime they want, gets fixed too.
The people are increasingly getting fed up with this. And it sheds a negative shadow upon all Cops who support and stick up for this bad behavior.
I don't remember the 1980s being that antiquated, but WOW! That court was apparently full of some bad people.
Those Cops refused information that was presented to them and abused a guy and just dumped him in his front yard when he needed medical attention. And you wonder why people think the Police are among the most dangerous people in the US.