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House Republicans block a Senate-passed bill sponsored by Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) to name a federal courthouse after Judge Joseph Hatchett, the first black Florida Supreme Court justice and the first black federal appellate judge in the South. Hatchett died last year. @CraigCaplan/1509276415371456519On twitter.com
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Per @politicofl, citing @axios reporting I can't find, Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) was "behind the defeat of the bill because Clyde said he ‘let it be known’ to colleagues that Hatchett authored a 1999 opinion banning prayer at public school graduations."/2 politico.com/newsletters/florida-playbook/2022/03/31/are-florida-republicans-serious-about-going-after-disney-00021957Permalink On twitter.com
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Actually, it was the Supreme Court that struck down prayers at public school graduations, in a 1992 case called Lee v. Weisman. Hatchett's panel was following that ruling in striking down a Duval County school board policy that tried to get around that./3 edweek.org/education/court-rejects-policy-on-graduation-messages/1999/05Permalink On twitter.com
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Clyde is a freshman Republican congressman from northeast Georgia who has made headlines a few times. Among them, he was one of three Republicans who voted against the bill making lynching a federal crime. /4 wuga.org/local-news/2022-03-30/biden-signs-landmark-anti-lynching-bill-into-law-but-one-ga-congressman-voted-noPermalink On twitter.com
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For those asking why it couldn't pass with a simple majority, as I understand it, the proposal to name a courthouse for the pioneering black judge had been seen as uncontroversial & so devoting floor time to debating it would be unnecessary, but a bill needs 2/3 to pass that way.Permalink On twitter.com
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