Politics + Constitution

After Reconstruction: How the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments Lost Their Meaning

The Roberts Court Finished the Job

By Fred Schilling — https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/justices.aspx, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=124352288

The three Amendments ratified between 1865–1870 were supposed to represent the best of America—proof of America’s conscious decision to turn the clock on her original sin of enslavement. The 13th Amendment…