There shld never be threats against judges. But Judge Salas’ son was murdered at her home in 2020. Abortion providers faced increased assaults through 2020 and 2021. Election workers faced violent threats in 2020. Librarians are facing death threats.
https://twitter.com/jessbravin/status/1609570152361639936
Speaker Pelosi’s husband was nearly killed this year. Members of Congress, even the VP ran for their lives on Jan 6th. Judges have not been singularly targeted in this violent moment. And the response to protect the justices was swift & bipartisan.
While I always appreciate a remembrance of the circumstances surrounding the violence that marked the desegregation of Central HS in Little Rock, and the courageous judges who issued important decisions in civil rights cases despite threats of violence from white supremacists.
We should never forget that the clients, the communities from which they came, and the civil rts activists & lawyers who represented them, lived under constant threat w/o protection in most cases by Congress, the President or the military.
The CJ’a tribute is oddly timed.And the cloaking of this message in the history of the Little Rock school case and the legacy of #ThurgoodMarshall whose work was centrally devoted to a vision of equality,justice & opportunity fundamentally at odds w/the project of Roberts’Court..
Well…it’s hard to miss the irony. And the feeling, as in the reliance on Brown overcome stare decisis in Dobbs, that the rich lessons of our civil rights history are conveniently sourced or ignored at will by the conservative justices to advance their preferred narratives.
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