The right today blew up the last bridge to the 20th Century. We have been watching a systematic rollback of the progress from the Warren Court forward. I have a new understanding of the Warren Court in the context of what was learned in the 20th century The World Wars that were fought was based upon inequality and an unequal access to the goods and services of society. In Europe as they rebuilt they spread the wealth in democracies. In the US it took until the 1950’s to include blacks.

🧵 For the last 40 hours there has been no power in my home due to a winter storm. I live in San Mateo County: a very wealthy county but I live in its poorest community. If the future is electric what does this say about our future? @GavinNewsom @AlexPadilla4CA @SenFeinstein @RepAnnaEshoo @JoshBeckerSV you all know that climate change is pushing electricity as the solution and an all electric future is a horror show with this electrical infrastructure.

Saying it slow. Brown reversed case law either clearly wrong or wrongly decided.Before the war slaves had no rights. Dred Scott. Then the south lost the war. 14th Amendment. Then instead of hanging traitors we gave them their citizenship back. What did the traitors do? /1

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They stole the citizenship of the newly freed blacks. They didn’t change the Constitution. They just conspired then like now to write a trashy opinion that is in the dustbin of history where it belongs (Plessy). But that trashy case lasted 50 years before it was overturned. /2

SCOTUS has always been anti small d democratic. The most onerous decisions that undermine the Constitution have come from that institution. Only in the 20th Century was there a sustained period of SCOTUS rulings that uplifted the common man. /1 What coincided with that period? A 50 year run of Democratic supermajorities in both houses of Congress. In the early 20th Century SCOTUS produced a series of opinions that were anti-common man. They held that states don't have to uphold the Bill of Rights /2

This is a long-term issue and a hard problem to solve. The stimulus should bring resources to the table, redistribute those resources as a means to solve the current health crisis. But we should not be satisfied with that limited view of a solution. We are not just trying to bend the curve on the virus. We should also take this opportunity to bend the curve on wealth inequity. To that end, the stimulus should have the following principles.