The court ruled that the guards were likely in the wrong
That’s just empty language, not any kind of ruling with legal force behind it
the man had to sue them in state court because the prison had never received federal funding
TIL the first amendment has no effect if you’re transferred to the wrong state prison
In 2020, near the end of a five-month prison sentence for drug possession, Landor was transferred to the Raymond Laborde correctional center in Cottonport, Louisiana.
There, Landor reminded officials that the New Orleans-based fifth US circuit court of appeals had ruled in a 2017 case that Louisiana’s policy of cutting the hair of Rastafarians violated the 2000 law. Landor even handed over a copy of that ruling, but a guard threw it in the trash, according to court documents in the case.
Landor was then handcuffed to a chair, held down and shaved.
So the majority opinion is that a state agency can willfully violate a federal law but federal judges can’t do anything about it. If that sounds stupid and racist to you that’s because it is.
That’s just empty language, not any kind of ruling with legal force behind it
TIL the first amendment has no effect if you’re transferred to the wrong state prison
So the majority opinion is that a state agency can willfully violate a federal law but federal judges can’t do anything about it. If that sounds stupid and racist to you that’s because it is.
It’s worse when you look at the history of that federal law, section 1983.
The court keeps gutting it because it was a law made to help protect former slaves from southern racists in positions of power.
Fucking Roberts. Always in service of the racists.
Jurisdiction matters. That’s what this is about.
Yup, guy who left the state murdered someone, guess we gotta let em go.
Due process isn’t always pretty, but don’t throw out the baby with the bath water.