Good morning. 
Saturday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of sixty-eight. Sunrise is 5:15 AM and sunset 8:34 PM, for 15h 19m 01s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 47.7% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the one thousand three hundred thirteenth day.
On this day in 1971, the New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.
Recommended for reading in full —
Todd Gitlin contends This isn’t 1968. It’s 1969 (‘Today’s movement more closely resembles the antiwar Moratorium protests than the unrest of the previous year’):
Yes, there is something of 1968 in 2020. But the 1968 synapse oversimplifies greatly. The uprising underway now signals a vastly more popular and widespread movement reminiscent of the great outpouring of anti-Vietnam War action in October and November 1969, under the aegis of a national project called the Moratorium, which, amid outrage long in the making, cried out: Enough.
Even as the country’s largest radical organization of the 1960s, Students for a Democratic Society, broke up into warring “revolutionary” factions, the majority of war opponents, rallied by unsung leaders, turned to congenial tactics. The issue was different from today’s, but the ecumenical spirit, the resolve and the conviction about the need for a new political start were similar. Then as now, the rallies expressed both solidarity and self-interest. In 1969, with the draft in force, many in the Moratorium crowds had a huge personal stake, though many did not. Today, black protesters have the most obvious stakes, but whites in the far-flung crowds, under a broad range of leaders, are also moved selflessly and morally.
(About this Gitlin is easily right: these protests are overwhelmingly peaceful.)
Benjamin Parker asks Where is the DOJ Civil Rights Division? (‘Policing the police is a core reason the Department of Justice exists in the first place. But Attorney General Barr continues to defend the questionable actions of federal law enforcement officers’):
While the office of the attorney general dates from the Judiciary Act of 1789, the Department of Justice wasn’t created until 1870. Formed amid Reconstruction, its first tasks were to enforce the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments. The key provision of the 14th Amendment, then and now, is its mandate that
No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
In other words, the Justice Department was tasked with defending the civil rights of newly freed African Americans from infractions committed by the states.
The Civil Rights Act of 1957 recommitted the Justice Department to oversight of state and local law enforcement by creating the Civil Rights Division, which “works to uphold the civil and constitutional rights of all Americans, particularly some of the most vulnerable members of our society.”
Now would seem like a particularly busy time for the Civil Rights Division, considering how frequently images of Americans being bullied, beaten, tear-gassed, and even arrested for exercising their First Amendment rights have become in the past few weeks.
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