The Vice President later added, “I saw an interview with Chief Justice Roberts recently where he said the role of the court is to check the excesses of the executive. I thought that was a profoundly wrong sentiment.”How about if the people voted for racism and a return to the pre-Civil Rights Act, pre-Fair Housing Act, pre-Brown v Board and desegregated military days, the days of racial covenants in deeds and “whites only” diners and water fountains and bathrooms?
Vance added, “That’s one-half of his job. The other half of his job is to check the excesses of his own branch. You cannot have a country where the American people keep on electing immigration enforcement and the courts tell the American people they’re not allowed to have what they voted for. That’s where we are right now.”
The courts have declared racial discrimination a “pernicious category,” despite some of the actions of the Roberts Court. I’m pretty sure they taught that at Yale. Would you expect the courts to slavishly follow the election results then?
Because the xenophobia of this Administration is just another form of racism. It’s pretty clear your Administration doesn’t think it can send the black people “back home.” But they still have hope they can drive out all the brown people.
You really aren’t fit to be among civilized people, are you?
In the full podcast, the pair spoke on a wide range of topics including how his faith shapes his politics.I don’t like to comment on another person’s faith, but you are really pushing me.
In Brown v Board the Court was addressing discrimination on the state level. And it was Truman who integrated the military, which is certainly within his duty to execute the Constitution.
ReplyDeleteVance is a fascist of opportunism, if this was the mid 60s, in Ohio, he'd have started out as a pro-integration Democrat but as soon as that state morphed into Louisiana up-river, he'd have turned full-on segregationist. He has no moral core that is locatable.