Matthews: Current Supreme Court Would Not Have Backed Desegregation, Civil Rights Bill

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http://www.mediaite.com/tv/matthews-current-supreme-court-would-not-have-backed-desegregation-civil-rights-bill/

by Noah Rothman | 6:35 pm, June 25th, 2012

MSNBC Host Chris Matthews took on the Supreme Court’s conservative justices on Monday for being on the wrong side of the landmark judicial cases of post-war America. He accused the conservatives on the Supreme Court of being unwilling to overturn segregation were it the 1950s, of refusing to remove organized prayer from public schools and of overturning civil rights legislation if this were the 1960s and of criminalizing abortions in the 1970s.

Does anyone wonder like I do what this Supreme Court – the one personified by Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas — would have done with the landmark decisions in the post-World War II era. I wonder if this court would have backed desegregation in the Brown case. I doubt this pack of conservatives, which includes Chief Justice John Roberts, Sam Alito and Anthony Kennedy, would have voted to knock down “separate but equal” in the 1950s.

I doubt this group would have removed organized prayer from public schools back in the 1960s – that decision that ignited the moral majority.

I doubt that this court would have recognized a woman’s right to decide on an abortion in the 1970s.

Complete transcript and video at link

[lamp_shade]

1. Thanks. Just posted link to my facebook.

[INdemo]

2. Did you mention medicare,medicaid..or even Social Security...

or how about the war on poverty..Lets face if it was/is a Democratic idea or legislation it will be shot down by what is now this 3rd legislative branch...
....Your point well taken and thanks for the post/link

[rhett o rick]

3. And dont think they wont undue these laws.

Citizens United undid precedence. I think they have their sights on Roe v Wade.

[gordianot]

4. It is worse than that they are on the wrong side of Dred Scott everyone is a slave to the 1% today.

There should be a new motto Corporations are not people they are our overseers. You have all been bought and sold in a no bid transaction the Supremes bypassed the auction block and Capitalism.

[olegramps]

5. Those four are nothing more than fascist thugs and Christian hypocrites.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. Do not understand why the liberal satire machinery can drive that point home

to make Republicans feel ashamed of themselves.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. What an incredibly profound observation from Chris Matthew.

[hifiguy]

8. Tweety is saying thinge he NEVER would have said

even three years ago. Could it be that he has finally reached what I refer to as the Popeye Point ("I've had all I can stands, and I can't stands no more!!) with the Repukes?

[Animal Chin]

9. Kangaroo Court

When the decisions of the Supreme Court can be predicted along party lines with a margin of error of one Justice, does the Supreme Court really mean anything? These justices should all be ashamed of themselves.

[Mean Gene]

11. So right. Welcome.

[tjwash]

10. Yesterdays decision was a blatant giveaway to AZ corporations

They struck down the parts of the bill that would have made it illegal to hire undocumented immigrants, but kept the part of the bill that allows the state authorities to sit on the roads and cherry pick laborers coming off of a days work out of farms, hotels, and restaurants, and boot them out of the country right before they are supposed to get paid.

All at taxpayer expense!

Isn't it nice to watch corporate and state power merge? It is very 1920's Italy in the grand canyon state right now.

And people wonder why I moved out of AZ.

[allan01]

12. re:Matthews: Current Supreme Court Would Not Have Backed Desegregation, Civil Rights Bill

wouldn not have backed anuything in that era . aslo the moral majority is either and neither .