Repealing the Last Half of the 20th Century

Not long ago, the U.S. Supreme Court held the belief that centuries of enslavement of Black Americans followed by decades of Jim Crow laws were fundamental wrongs in need of remedies. Regardless of political persuasion, the Court’s justices held the opinion that segregated lunch counters and “separate but equal” laws were profoundly unconstitutional. For generations, the Court considered a woman’s right to bodily autonomy as settled law. The result of the Court’s judicial consistency on these issues was the most significant expansion of civil liberties since Reconstruction. But in an about-face, the current Court would have us believe the very remedies intended to address past wrongs are themselves the source of injustice. <a href="https://momentum.medium.com/repealing-the-last-half-of-the-20th-century-be09f5676928">Learn More</a>