Sid Mishkin: Living with history is instructive, even when it’s flawed
We should remember and learn from our history, not attempt to erase it, as we work to achieve racial justice, peace and reconciliation.
Sidney Mishkin
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Sid Mishkin: In a time of crisis, where is our leader?
The president should do his job, not pass it off to the states.
Indiana revives old interposition law
In the 1950s, after the U.S. Supreme Court decided that segregated schools were unconstitutional, a number of Southern states attempted to revive the doctrine of interposition. That doctrine has it that a state has the right to interpose itself between its citizens and actions of the federal government that the state’s legislature and governor oppose, thus nullify such actions.