Jeffrey Toobin:
Davis'
supporters have tried to compare her to Rosa Parks, the Alabama
seamstress who refused to follow local segregation laws mandating that
African-Americans had to give up their seats to whites on public buses.
Right era, wrong person. The real analogy is to George Wallace, who
stood in the doorway of the University of Alabama in defiance of federal
court orders mandating an end to official segregation.
Like
Wallace, Davis is a public official, and she has acted in defiance of
modern interpretations of the Constitution. And like him, Davis, sooner
rather than later, will be properly viewed as being on the
wrong side of the law, of the public and of history.
wrong side of the law, of the public and of history.
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