Conservatives have never respected the Reconstruction amendments because they coerced the slaveholding States to adopt them. Worse still, “disastrous” SCOTUS rulings like Row, Obergefell, Brown v. Board, basically anything affirming equality all use these Amendments’ reasoning.
It’s ironic that a conservative majority of all Catholics, one woman, and a black guy are trying to go back to an era where all of them could be legally discriminated against. Hell, before the Reconstruction amendments, Thomas would be ineligible for citizenship.
Conservatives have never respected the Reconstruction amendments because they coerced the slaveholding States to adopt them. Worse still, “disastrous” SCOTUS rulings like Row, Obergefell, Brown v. Board, basically anything affirming equality all use these Amendments’ reasoning.
It’s ironic that a conservative majority of all Catholics, one woman, and a black guy are trying to go back to an era where all of them could be legally discriminated against. Hell, before the Reconstruction amendments, Thomas would be ineligible for citizenship.