Plus: Black Lives Matter’s Silence on a Champion of Racial Equality
| Good morning from Washington, where the Supreme Court unites in defense of the Electoral College’s integrity. We’ve got the legal lowdown from Zack Smith and Hans von Spakovsky. It’s odd that Black Lives Matter doesn’t openly venerate an American civil rights icon, Bob Woodson writes. On the podcast, a pastor weighs in on the destruction of a statue of abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Plus: the message in the June jobs numbers; a haven for monuments targeted by vandals; and why we don’t want a French Revolution here. On this date in 1981, President Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O’Connor, an appeals judge in Arizona, to become the first woman on the Supreme Court. | |
| Analysis | Frederick Douglass Statue Toppling Is About ‘Creating Chaos’ | | By Virginia Allen The toppling of a Frederick Douglass statue shows “there are people within our culture that are more committed to creating chaos then they are solving problems and finding solutions,” says Rev. Dean Nelson, chairman of the Frederick Douglass Foundation. | More |
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