Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
GRAHAM V. CONNER REPRISES "DRED SCOTT" AND THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT OF 1850
To say that certain persons lack a substantive right to life, as the U. S. Supreme Court has snidely done in Graham v. Conner, is to elevate the value of certain lives over others; an invidious & oppressive form of discrimination, which falls upon those at society's bottom: blacks! Graham v. Conner is the 1989 version of the 1857 Dred Scott decision and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, thanks to Rehnquist, Scalia et al.
http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/490/386.html