re: #120 Dark_Falcon

I despise the system that’s sprung up around St Louis, but the way it is sustained is such that I do not think it can be undone effectively with a federal court order. Changing such a system of laws is the job of the legislature, but I seriously doubt the Missouri state legislature will be inclined to do so.

It would appear that you agree that civil rights are being violated by local authorities in St. Louis. Why exactly should the Feds do nothing about this because the state and local authorities won’t fix this on their own?

How would one distinguish the Ferguson situation from earlier cases in which Federal civil rights action was pursued? The state and local officials in the Jim Crow south were also part of the problem, after all.