• Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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    1 month ago

    The 1964 civil rights act was passed the next year after that photo went viral.

    A year is an extraordinarily long time with an illegitimate occupant of the White House, pardoning himself for anything he chooses to do.

    I don’t think the measures that were effective during the civil rights era are at all suitable for addressing such a fundamental breach of the constitution.

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      1 month ago

      That was because the remedy protestors asked for was legislative and they accepted legislative lag as a reality.

      The remedy if Trump or SCOTUS fucks around is immediate abdication.