Plessy v. Ferguson for trans people
🚨By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court UPHOLDS Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors, concluding that it does NOT discriminate on the basis of sex, is not subject to heightened scrutiny, and survives rational basis review. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
June 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Plessy v. Ferguson for trans people
these people are segregationists, full stop. their constitution is the one that allowed plessy.
January 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
these people are segregationists, full stop. their constitution is the one that allowed plessy.
LITERAL FUCKING PLESSY LOGIC
Amy Coney Barrett suggests that the health care ban might not be sex discrimination under the 14th Amendment because its "burdens of the law fall equally on boys and girls because neither can transition." She asks if it should be seen more as targeted discrimination against transgender people.
December 4, 2024 at 5:33 PM
LITERAL FUCKING PLESSY LOGIC
“How Plessy overplayed his hand … and lost”
June 19, 2025 at 12:48 PM
“How Plessy overplayed his hand … and lost”
one thing i think people should ask the court conservatives given this ruling is what, specifically, was wrong with plessy?
🚨By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court UPHOLDS Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors, concluding that it does NOT discriminate on the basis of sex, is not subject to heightened scrutiny, and survives rational basis review. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
June 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
one thing i think people should ask the court conservatives given this ruling is what, specifically, was wrong with plessy?
especially re: 2, one must ask, in what way is this court majority actually opposed to Plessy v. Ferguson?
This will not end w/ voting rights. The fundamental premises of these SCOTUS opinions are:
1) Anti-discrimination is actually unconstitutional discrimination;
2) Intentional discrimination isn't actionable if any alternative rationale is presented.
It's the beginning of the end of civil rights law.
1) Anti-discrimination is actually unconstitutional discrimination;
2) Intentional discrimination isn't actionable if any alternative rationale is presented.
It's the beginning of the end of civil rights law.
This heinous ruling confirms a worst-case-scenario reading of Callais as an all-purpose shield for racist lawmakers who want to gerrymander Black communities into electoral oblivion. And it’s outrageously partisan—a totally unprincipled gift to the GOP.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
June 3, 2026 at 2:53 AM
especially re: 2, one must ask, in what way is this court majority actually opposed to Plessy v. Ferguson?
Plessy-grade gaslighting
Honestly one of the worst, most disturbing paragraphs — on the basis of process, substance, and effect — I’ve read in a Supreme Court order or opinion in a very long time.
November 7, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Plessy-grade gaslighting
a sin on our national honor like dred scott, plessy, and korematsu
January 13, 2026 at 9:18 PM
a sin on our national honor like dred scott, plessy, and korematsu
Callais is already worse than Plessy imo
September 29, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Callais is already worse than Plessy imo
This is *exactly* what happened after the reconstruction amendments were added to the constitution and then, basically, deleted by the Plessy court.
June 30, 2026 at 3:18 PM
This is *exactly* what happened after the reconstruction amendments were added to the constitution and then, basically, deleted by the Plessy court.
Trump v Anderson was every bit as wrong as Plessy or Korematsu.
every time I read this, I get apocalyptically apoplectic about how clear it is. it is instant. it does not require explicit congressional action to invoke, it instead only requires that to remove.
donald trump is not the current president right now, according to the constitution.
donald trump is not the current president right now, according to the constitution.
January 20, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Trump v Anderson was every bit as wrong as Plessy or Korematsu.
This is actually the second decision from the Roberts court endorsing plessy-like reasoning. The first was Dobbs. bsky.app/profile/jame...
one thing i think people should ask the court conservatives given this ruling is what, specifically, was wrong with plessy?
🚨By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court UPHOLDS Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors, concluding that it does NOT discriminate on the basis of sex, is not subject to heightened scrutiny, and survives rational basis review. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
June 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This is actually the second decision from the Roberts court endorsing plessy-like reasoning. The first was Dobbs. bsky.app/profile/jame...
i think this is right and i will observe that this is essentially the position the court took in plessy v. ferguson, which held that the constitution has no bearing on inequalities of social power
There is a stance I will call "Kavanaugh neutrality" that says the Constitution is "neutral" between vulnerable people and the power of the state and so we will watch and shrug while the vulnerable are beaten up in our presence. #Skrmetti
December 4, 2024 at 3:48 PM
i think this is right and i will observe that this is essentially the position the court took in plessy v. ferguson, which held that the constitution has no bearing on inequalities of social power
The great flaw in Plessy is its refusal to see segregation for what it is. This willful naïveté animates Callais as well
It pretends partisan gerrymandering is a reasonable, race- neutral prerogative of the state, the same justification Plessy used for Jim Crow
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
It pretends partisan gerrymandering is a reasonable, race- neutral prerogative of the state, the same justification Plessy used for Jim Crow
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The Roberts Court Takes a Page from Plessy v. Ferguson
In destroying the Voting Rights Act, the justices echo the court's darkest and most racist days.
www.motherjones.com
May 7, 2026 at 2:50 PM
The great flaw in Plessy is its refusal to see segregation for what it is. This willful naïveté animates Callais as well
It pretends partisan gerrymandering is a reasonable, race- neutral prerogative of the state, the same justification Plessy used for Jim Crow
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
It pretends partisan gerrymandering is a reasonable, race- neutral prerogative of the state, the same justification Plessy used for Jim Crow
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
really can't be said enough that this case was decided by the same court that decided plessy v. ferguson. if they could have found a plausible rationale to limit birthright citizenship they would have done it. but there is none! the text is as clear as constitutional language can be.
Today is the 128th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision on birthright citizenship in U.S. v. Wong Ark Kim.
March 29, 2026 at 12:39 AM
really can't be said enough that this case was decided by the same court that decided plessy v. ferguson. if they could have found a plausible rationale to limit birthright citizenship they would have done it. but there is none! the text is as clear as constitutional language can be.
rehnquist never stopped being the guy who thought plessy was rightfully decided
September 24, 2026 at 2:06 AM
rehnquist never stopped being the guy who thought plessy was rightfully decided
Mother Jones:
The Roberts Court Takes a Page from Plessy v. Ferguson
In destroying the Voting Rights Act, the justices echo the court’s darkest and most racist days.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The Roberts Court Takes a Page from Plessy v. Ferguson
In destroying the Voting Rights Act, the justices echo the court’s darkest and most racist days.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The Roberts court takes a page from Plessy v. Ferguson
In destroying the Voting Rights Act, the justices echo the court's darkest and most racist days.
www.motherjones.com
May 8, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Mother Jones:
The Roberts Court Takes a Page from Plessy v. Ferguson
In destroying the Voting Rights Act, the justices echo the court’s darkest and most racist days.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The Roberts Court Takes a Page from Plessy v. Ferguson
In destroying the Voting Rights Act, the justices echo the court’s darkest and most racist days.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“Henry Billings Brown only wrote one Plessy. Alito’s already written two.”
— @adamserwer.bsky.social
— @adamserwer.bsky.social
"If you resurrected Ulysses S. Grant...and told him, 'hey, the Supreme Court is nullifying the 15th Amendment again'...he would be like, 'yeah, that sounds right.' He'd probably be surprised it was Republicans, but that's about it."
Adam Serwer on Tennessee's redistricting grab.
Adam Serwer on Tennessee's redistricting grab.
May 10, 2026 at 2:52 PM
“Henry Billings Brown only wrote one Plessy. Alito’s already written two.”
— @adamserwer.bsky.social
— @adamserwer.bsky.social
Gonna call the two teams in this league Plessy and Ferguson.
August 13, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Gonna call the two teams in this league Plessy and Ferguson.
It’s basically: “Plessy v. Ferguson: Bad Move, ‘The Blacks’!”
June 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
It’s basically: “Plessy v. Ferguson: Bad Move, ‘The Blacks’!”
Trump v. Anderson is every bit as wrong as Dred Scott, Plessy, or Korematsu.
What's happening in Minnesota is one reason the Reconstruction Amendments banned insurrectionists from holding office. Unfortunately, the originalists on the Supreme Court interpreted the plain language of the amendment to mean its opposite.
January 25, 2026 at 1:26 AM
Trump v. Anderson is every bit as wrong as Dred Scott, Plessy, or Korematsu.
the basic logic of plessy — that the constitution has no bearing on social inequality — undergirds every roberts court ruling on the state’s ability to deal with the effects of racism from parents involved to calais.
The great flaw in Plessy is its refusal to see segregation for what it is. This willful naïveté animates Callais as well
It pretends partisan gerrymandering is a reasonable, race- neutral prerogative of the state, the same justification Plessy used for Jim Crow
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
It pretends partisan gerrymandering is a reasonable, race- neutral prerogative of the state, the same justification Plessy used for Jim Crow
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The Roberts Court Takes a Page from Plessy v. Ferguson
In destroying the Voting Rights Act, the justices echo the court's darkest and most racist days.
www.motherjones.com
May 7, 2026 at 5:11 PM
the basic logic of plessy — that the constitution has no bearing on social inequality — undergirds every roberts court ruling on the state’s ability to deal with the effects of racism from parents involved to calais.
"Change the entire Constitutional order but don't make us write a Dred Scott or Plessy"
August 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
"Change the entire Constitutional order but don't make us write a Dred Scott or Plessy"
the position of the roberts court is both that racism isn’t real and that the constitution mandates a colorblindness so strict that it neither recognizes nor can act on social inequalities. incidentally, this is essentially the court’s holding in plessy v. ferguson.
August 1, 2025 at 9:45 PM
the position of the roberts court is both that racism isn’t real and that the constitution mandates a colorblindness so strict that it neither recognizes nor can act on social inequalities. incidentally, this is essentially the court’s holding in plessy v. ferguson.
Trump v. US is increasingly looking like a historically catastrophic Supreme Court ruling
Dred Scott, Plessy, Lochner, Korematsu-level bad
except on this one there may be no lever to with which to pull back
Dred Scott, Plessy, Lochner, Korematsu-level bad
except on this one there may be no lever to with which to pull back
March 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Trump v. US is increasingly looking like a historically catastrophic Supreme Court ruling
Dred Scott, Plessy, Lochner, Korematsu-level bad
except on this one there may be no lever to with which to pull back
Dred Scott, Plessy, Lochner, Korematsu-level bad
except on this one there may be no lever to with which to pull back