New Separate but Equal Case

Today one of my clerks, Jerome Thompson, advised me about a very interesting Writ of Certiorari that could become a major case. Much like Roberts v. City of Boston (1948), this inquiry deals with a one-eighth black an who boarded the all-white a train traveling in Louisiana. The train's conductor arrested the man, as he broke the Louisiana Separate Car Act of 1890, which states that blacks cannot go into the white cars. Backed by the famous lawyer Albion W. Tourgée, he is claiming that this law is unconstitutional under the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments. He lost in the Louisiana Supreme Court, so I think he is hoping that my colleagues and I will change tradition so he can sit in a different place.

Homer Plessy

Honestly, I do not think he is going to accomplish anything. That man should just stick to what the government says and sits in the colored car. There is no difference in that one from the white car, so why does he care so much? He needs to learn to respect the law, because he is not going to get anything in this Court. The only luck he has is in that goddamn Justice Harlan, trying to be a saint and save all those Negroes. Reconstruction is over, and they're already equal. None of the justices have any respect for those colored complainers, so he needs to have a very good argument to win us over. I am going to accept the case though, just so I can strike down this annoying man.