Political Quotes

“In December of 1952 and again in December of 1953, the Supreme Court was packed. There were lines out into the hallway, with people waiting to get in to hear oral arguments. In December, the Court would hear arguments on the legality of segregation brought by Thurgood Marshall, representing the Brown family in Topeka, KS. Just 56 years before Brown v. Board of Education, segregation was protected by the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson. They ruled that separate but equal facilities were constitutional, thus enshrining the national disgrace of segregation into America--an absolutely terrible decision by the Supreme Court that haunted our Nation for decades. It took 56 years before the Supreme Court corrected its wrong. Now that more than a century has passed since the Plessy v. Ferguson decision, the Nation still celebrates the Court that decided the Brown v. Board of Education case, as Justices righted a great wrong against millions of people. There was a simple lesson in that decision: When the Court made a mistake, it should fix its mistake. In a lesser known case that affects just about every American now, in 2018, the Supreme Court overturned by a 5-to-4 decision 51 years of precedent on the collection of taxes for businesses called the physical presence rule. Many people now know it as the internet tax rule. It changed the way taxes were collected on the internet.…”