Scalia: Segregation In South Would Have Ended On Its Own

Posted by | June 23, 2013 09:01 | Filed under: Top Stories


by Stuart Shapiro

In a speech notable for its remarks on gay marriage (he’s against it!), Justice Scalia slipped in a comment on Brown vs. Board of Education.

Scalia said he would have voted with the majority on the case to create more educational opportunities for blacks. He added, however, that “a good result” doesn’t make for good law. Had the courts not interceded, he said, state leaders would have eventually removed the racial barriers.

We already know that Scalia does not believe in molecular biology.  Apparently, history is not among his favorite fields either.  I’m sure Governors Wallace, Faubus etc. would have torn down those racial barriers, if only the mean federal government hadn’t backed them into a corner.

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By: Stuart Shapiro

Stuart is a professor and the Director of the Public Policy
program at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers
University. He teaches economics and cost-benefit analysis and studies
regulation in the United States at both the federal and state levels.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Stuart worked for five years at the Office
of Management and Budget in Washington under Presidents Clinton and
George W. Bush.