John Cornyn tweets back at Barack Obama. Yes, he really wrote this:

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55. He's still a jerk, but I interpreted Cornyn's tweet differently.

I think he meant that the Plessy separate but equal doctrine was settled law for 58 years—longer than Roe’s existence—yet was overturned by Brown v. Board of Education, which was controversial at the time. I suspect that the reason Brown came so readily to Cornyn’s mind is that it has been in Republican crosshairs for several years. In reality, all this many years later, Brown (1954) has never been fully implemented, and John Roberts is definitely one who sides with the white conservative position, as he demonstrated when he and his fellow justices gutted the Voting Rights Act. Republicans are hoping to overturn Brown also now that they have a majority that favors anything Republican.

Here’s a bit on Roberts’ attempts to undermine Brown.

“By the way, just 15 years ago in the Community Schools v. Seattle School District case, U. S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts in 2007 tried to turn Brown I’s “separate but equal is unconstitutional” decision on its head by claiming that that historic ruling meant the exact opposite of what the Supreme Court unanimously said in 1954.

In the 2007 case, Roberts rejected the laudable attempt by enlightened white school districts in Seattle, Washington and Louisville, Kentucky, to voluntarily desegregate schools and promote integration by utilizing racial classification to achieve diversity and to avoid racial isolation through student assignment.

And he accepted the argument of racist white parents who opposed that laudable attempt by contending that it was unconstitutional for a school district to use race as a factor in assigning students to a school in order to bring that school’s racial composition in line with the composition of the district as a whole.

In other words, he ruled that race is not part of racism and therefore should not be a factor in ending racism.

As documented by the American Economic Association (AEA), “Black children are five times as likely as white children to attend racially segregated schools, especially those in high poverty areas.”

The University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) pointed out that:

“[Since 1991 when] the Supreme Court issued rulings that made it easier for districts to be released from the … Brown … decision …, highly segregated schools with 10% or fewer white students have more than tripled from 5.7% to 18.6%.”

https://www.penncapital-star.com/commentary/brown-v-bd-of-ed-never-really-overturned-plessy-michael-coard/