U.S. Supreme Court can overturn prior decisions
To the editor: On May 18, 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson approved of racial segregation which led to an explosion of Jim Crow Laws that legalized racial discrimination and oppression against nonwhite people. That decision remained the law in our country for 58 years.
In Brown v. the Board of Education in 1954, the U.S.Supreme Court overturned Plessy v. Ferguson which led to civil rights laws at both state and federal levels.
Many Republican politicians and others who supported segregation were outraged by that decision in 1954.
Their “RIGHT” to choose to live in a whites-only neighborhood, to have their children attend whites-only schools, to recreate, swim, drink water, eat, shop, etc,. in whites only parks, swimming pools, drinking fountains, restaurants, stores, etc. had been taken away from them.
On January 22, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Roe v. Wade.
It appears it will not take 58 years but 50 years for the court to overturn that decision.
Now it is many Democratic politicians and those who favor abortion who are outraged that their “RIGHT” to end a baby’s life has been taken away.
In 1954, and it appears within the next couple of months, the U.S. Supreme Court will have issued two landmark decisions in accord with Catholic moral teachings.
Patrick McDonald
McDonald Law Office, S.C.
Janesville