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As I've said esewhere, conservatives don't take constitutional amendments as a denouncement of their racism; they take them as a challenge to become more creative in their bigotry.

I forgot about the PENUMBRAS!

It's a classic liberal mistake: conservatives used a tool for evil, so instead of using that same tool for good, let's never use tools. Some-times, I swear, it can seem like liberals spend all their time inventing ways to get their asses kicked.

Jim Crow Era: The ruling gave constitutional backing to Jim Crow laws, entrenching decades of legally enforced segregation across the American South.

Overturned: The precedent stood for 58 years until it was unanimously struck down by Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.

The Verdict: The Supreme Court ruled 7–1 that segregated facilities did not violate the Thirteenth Amendment (as it did not re-establish slavery) or the Fourteenth Amendment (equal protection clause).