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To: Texas_Jarhead
"I think what we heard today echoed of George Wallace," Cohen said. "He said the federal courts have no authority to order him to do anything Alabama law doesn't require him to do. Whatever views Moore has about this, federal law is supreme."

Comparing the fight to keep the Ten Commandments on display to George Wallace's desperate fight for racist segregation is so perverse I can't find the words.

58 posted on 12/10/2002 1:14:52 PM PST by Zack Nguyen
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To: Zack Nguyen
Comparing the fight to keep the Ten Commandments on display to George Wallace's desperate fight for racist segregation is so perverse I can't find the words.

It's also grossly inaccurate. The 14th Amendment guarantees equal protection under the law, which is diametrically in opposition to segregation. Indeed, the 14th Amendment was the official follow-up to the Emancipation Proclamation, being a constitutional prohibition against slavery.

Meanwhile, those who would (deliberately, it seems) misinterpret the 14th Amendment to extend federal jurisdiction over all matters originally reserved to the states use it as a basis for supporting the usurpation of state powers (what used to be called the "states' rights" issue) explicitly protected under the 10th Amendment.

For what it's worth, "perverse" seems to be a pretty good word for it to me.

63 posted on 12/10/2002 1:25:46 PM PST by Imal
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yea, I thought the George Wallace comparison was dirty too. Not surprising though. In that little memo from the SPLC earlier this year they stated that they would make the case 'dirty' so no judge would dare touch it.
81 posted on 12/10/2002 2:57:43 PM PST by Texas_Jarhead
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