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On January 5, 2022, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards pardoned Homer Plessy for committing the crime of riding in a whites-only railcar in 1892. The U.S. Supreme Court had rejected Plessy\\u2019s appeal of his conviction in the infamous Plessy v. Ferguson decision that set the stage for \\u201cseparate but equal\\u201d treatment under Jim Crow laws. But that decision had placed public opinion over the intent of the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. The progressive left objects to an originalist interpretation of the Constitution by justices that impedes their efforts to make sweeping changes to the form and function of the federal government. In this podcast, The Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, looks at the issues being raised by vaccine mandate cases currently under review by the Court.