President Trump has aggressively stoked America’s culture wars since taking office but major Supreme Court rulings on Monday suggested — in a season already marked by sweeping calls for police reforms and racial justice — that he's on the losing side.
"Donald Trump is becoming an island in his own country," said Douglas Brinkley, a professor of history at Rice University in Houston."His views on social justice, race, gender and equality are more and more antiquated." In recent weeks, he met only with supportive members of law enforcement, not with victims of police abuses. He has spread a false conspiracy theory that a 75-year-old man shoved by police in Buffalo, N.Y., had faked his head injuries, and publicly rejected plans by Pentagon officials to rename 10 Army bases still named in honor of Confederate generals.
"Whether it's the Supreme Court or the court of public opinion, we're moving forwards not backwards," Hart said. Trump, caught between showing solidarity with his evangelical supporters and backing the wrong side of a lopsided public — and judicial — opinion, reacted to the court’s LGBTQ ruling with what appeared to be glum resignation.
And Trump has continued to dismiss the Black Lives Matter movement, which has sustained protests in hundreds of cities and towns since the May 25 police killing of George Floyd, a Black man, in Minneapolis. Even NASCAR, with its fan base rooted in the South, last week banned Confederate flags from its events, and its race on Sunday included a Black driver whose car was emblazoned with the words"Black Lives Matter."
Trump has been quiet and largely uninvolved as Republicans in Congress have engaged in discussions about police reform legislation in response to the protests, which were inflamed again over the weekend when another Black man, Rayshard Brooks, was shot in the back and killed by a police officer in Atlanta.
Someone should tell Roberts he is not a liberal justice like he says there is none. HA HA HA!
Ha! He doesn't know how to read! Wait till they rule about his taxes, do you think he'll say the same thing, I doubt it!
I wish news could ATTEMPT to report “just the facts.” Instead, there’s an agenda here 🤔
whpresscorps Media heads are exploding
He read a bullet-point summary of the ruling. He did not read the ruling. Everyone over the age of five knows this.
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