about time, va attorney general overturns 58 historic legal opinions that ...

[butters]

...perpetuated racism

The opinions, issued between 1904 and 1967, were remnants of a time when the attorney general’s office played a role in upholding Jim Crow and maintaining segregation in schools long after it was outlawed.

The legal writings have been toothless since the Supreme Court issued rulings that outlawed discrimination on the basis of race. But Herring, who made the announcement along with members of the state’s NAACP and Legislative Black Caucus, said he hopes his sweeping order will send a message that Virginia is continuing to reckon with its past.

“By overruling these opinions, we are making clear that these legal opinions do not reflect the Virginia of today, and we will not carry them into the commonwealth of the future,” Herring said at a news conference Thursday.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/v...uated-racism/ar-AASKFGw?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

 

[KeithD]

But . . . but . . . the Republicans have won the Virginia Attorney General position again--the most recent Republican to hold (and Jim Crow) the position being the notorious rabid Trumper Ken Cuccinelli.

 

[pecksniff]

Only a gesture, of course, just like the recent posthumous pardon of Plessy from Plessy v. Ferguson.

 

[BidudeinWi]

...perpetuated racism



https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/v...uated-racism/ar-AASKFGw?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

How are things in Dudley Do-Right Land, eh?