Posted on 01/20/2026 9:29:14 AM PST by Starman417
Carrie Severino nailed it with one line:
Because apparently, in 2026, we’re now shopping for constitutional guidance in the same aisle as Jim Crow.
During Supreme Court arguments on gun laws, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson suggested that the Black Codes should count as part of constitutional history. You know, those charming post Civil War laws written specifically to make sure freed slaves stayed powerless, disarmed, and miserable.
But don’t worry. According to this logic, since they existed “back then,” they deserve a seat at the grown ups’ table. Never mind that their entire purpose was to crush civil rights. History is history, right?
That is not legal reasoning. That is moral amnesia.
The lawyer at least tried to inject sanity. He pointed out that those laws were unconstitutional from birth. They were not safety measures. They were leash laws. And if Bruen is supposed to identify real traditions, then maybe we should not treat racist power grabs as timeless constitutional wisdom.
Crazy idea, I know.
Here is the deeper problem. Progressives usually tell us the Constitution must “evolve” and not be chained to outdated thinking. But suddenly, when it helps restrict rights, even the ugliest laws in American history become “important context.”
Funny how that works.
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Will we also bring back Jim Crow?
but she can’t read so dug who it up for her
Well those Jim Crow laws were fruits of the Democrat Party rebirth.
Wilmington.
“Will we also bring back Jim Crow?”
There were a lot less drive-bys back then.
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