Supreme Court Case: The Case Of Loving V. Virginia

The case of Loving v. Virginia is a landmark civil rights decision of the United States Supreme Court, which invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage. It was decided on June 12th, 1967 where the the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously struck down Virginia's law prohibiting interracial marriages as a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. (Virginia 1967) What surprises me about this case is when the Lovings went to trial, that they first plead not guilty, when they were clearly guilty. This didn’t make sense to me because why would they plead not guilty when they were clearly lovers which makes them guilty. At the end of their arguments they changed their pleas to guilty, which I’m glad about because there was no point and pleading not guilty in the first place. They both ended up with a one year suspended sentence provided that "both accused leave Caroline County and the state of Virginia at once and do not return together at the same time to said county and state for a period of twenty-five years." Which I …show more content…
These issues are common in everyday life. Yes, more people are being open with their relationships, but with our new president, he’s kind of trying to make it okay to be rude to other people about who they should like and not like. I’m not trying to get into politics at all but the issue of race in this society now has are becoming a bigger issue with new administration in the White House. Some of the current cabinet members have a history of not supporting civil rights, and in one of Donald's rallies he encouraged violence against the black protesters. Whether he’s mocking Chinese business people with broken English, contorting his body to make fun of a disabled reporter, or calling out to “my African American," again and again, Trump has provoked anxiety and played to racial divisions. So yes, I do think the issues within this case are still prevalent in today’s