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Friday, June 29, 2007

Brown v. Board lawyers: Roberts twisted our words

From the NY Times ("The Same Words, but Differing Views")
In an unusual effort to cement his interpretation of Brown, [Roberts] quoted from the transcript of the 1952 argument in the case.

“We have one fundamental contention,” a lawyer for the schoolchildren, Robert L. Carter, had told the court more than a half-century ago. “No state has any authority under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to use race as a factor in affording educational opportunities among its citizens.”

Chief Justice Roberts added yesterday, “There is no ambiguity in that statement.”

Oh yeah? Too bad for Roberts that Carter, now 90, is still alive to call bullshit:
“All that race was used for at that point in time was to deny equal opportunity to black people,” Judge Carter said of the 1950s. “It’s to stand that argument on its head to use race the way they use is now.”

Jack Greenberg, who worked on the Brown case for the plaintiffs and is now a law professor at Columbia, called the chief justice’s interpretation “preposterous.”

“The plaintiffs in Brown were concerned with the marginalization and subjugation of black people,” Professor Greenberg said. “They said you can’t consider race, but that’s how race was being used.”

William T. Coleman Jr., another lawyer who worked on Brown, said, “The majority opinion is 100 percent wrong.”

Labels: cwa, race and racism, scotus

posted by Mikhaela Reid at 8:30 AM

1 Comments:

Blogger d nova said...

CJ roberts is wrong. the statement IS ambiguous. sorry, judge carter, u weren't clear enuf, n the CJ took advantage o that, whether out o ignorance or intent, i can't say.

here's the holding from brown v board:

"Segregation of students in public schools violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, because separate facilities are inherently unequal. District Court of Kansas reversed."

see, it's about ENDING SCHOOL SEGREGATION, not about utopia or even ending discrimination, if that were possible.

thanx 4 visit n comment, tho i don't agree there's not much confusion.

http://phobizone.blogspot.com/2007/06/confusion-reigns-supreme-supreme-court.html

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