Top congressman: Scalia 'white and proud'
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who startled colleagues this week with a reference to "racial entitlements," displays the same mindset as segregationist U.S. senators did when they fought civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s, a powerful congressman and movement veteran said Friday. The reference, as the high court heard a legal challenge to the 1965 Voting Rights Act, "absolutely shocked" South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn, a senior member of the Democratic House leadership, he told Huffington Post in an interview. "I'm not easily surprised by anything, but that took me to a place I haven't been in a long time," Clyburn said of Scalia's words from the [...]read more
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