plessey versus ferguson was decided in 1896.l it was overturned by brown versus board of education in 1954. more than half a century later. however, jim crow remained the de facto law of the land of the south until the civil rights act of 1964, which was a congressional legislative fix, not a judicial one. it wasn't until now, by the way, in 2021, that plessey versus ferguson is coming full circle. homer plessey, whose arrest for refusing to leave a whites-only train car ended up before the supreme court and he's about to be posthumously pardoned by the governor of louisiana. now with a supreme court made up of mostly trump appointee, there is concern that we're on a wave of rolling back constitutional rights and could do generations of damage before they are reversed. joining me now is a senior editor and legal correspondent for slate. dahlia, thank you for being with us. i need to ask you, a lot of americans think the courts are politicized. what's the solution? well, the solution is that the court is politicized. it's always

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