The all-white judges of Louisiana’s 5th Circuit Court of Appeal systematically ignored thousands of claims from prisoners, most of them Black, who said they had been wrongly convicted. Efforts to expose the decadelong injustice went unheard.
The failure of SCOTUS to recognize their complicity in Louisiana’s lackadaisical, and fundamentally illegal, judicial oversight is what is so gd shitty about this whole thing. Their belief that the lower state courts would take care of the issues, when in fact the lower courts WERE the fucking issue, is sad at best and destructive at worst.
America has no real justice at its core, and if nothing else that proves it doesn’t give a shit about its people. It has become a nation who’s more concerned about the wealth and privilege it protects than the actual people who live under its power.
It has become a nation who’s more concerned about the wealth and privilege it protects than the actual people who live under its power
Yeah dude, the country built on the backs of slaves that overthrows democratically elected officials in other countries is suddenly turning evil!? No way
