Noted Segregationist William Rehnquist [TEASER]

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Prologue Projects

News Commentary, News, Government

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🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Well if intimidating minority voters, issuing memos in support of school segregation, and moving into a neighborhood that bars Jews from owning homes there makes you a segregationist …

…then William Rehnquist was a segregationist. A man who served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Until 2005. The same year Gorillaz released "Feel Good Inc." The year Wedding Crashers came out. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia premiered BEFORE this man left the bench. Please do not let your takeaway here be "man I feel old."

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0:00.0	This is my favorite anecdote about any Supreme Court justice ever.
0:07.2	Hey everyone, this is Leon from Fiasco and Prologue Projects.
0:11.2	On this premium episode of 5-4, Peter, Rianne, and Michael are talking about former Chief Justice William Rankquest.
0:19.0	Rankquest was appointed on the eve of the Court's post-warren era shift to the right.
0:23.6	In the 1970s and early 80s, Rankquest repeatedly failed to persuade
0:27.9	often anyone else on the court that state sovereignty could trump federal congressional power.
0:33.6	But by the 1990s, he had a 5 Justice majority that was striking down federal laws right and left
0:39.8	for stepping on the toes of the states.
0:42.2	His federalism gave him cover for rowing back gains of the civil rights movement.
0:46.2	But as you'll hear, Rankquest's objection to equal rights wasn't simply principled opposition to big government.
0:52.4	It was also a deeply held personal belief.
0:55.4	This is 5-4, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks.
1:03.4	Welcome to 5-4, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have left our rights.
1:09.4	Riddle and stale, like your aging Easter candy.
1:12.4	I'm Peter. I'm here with Michael.
1:14.4	Hey everybody.
1:15.4	And Rianne.
1:16.4	R-A-P-E-G-S.
1:19.4	Yeah, a real one.
1:21.4	We lost a real one.
1:23.4	Everyone is always a little bit annoyed that we're always like a week behind the ball with our metaphors.
1:30.4	Yeah, not this time because we record a week in advance, not this time, because I know that Easter's coming up.
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