POLI 4021 Chapter : Brief 16
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Facts: mildred jeter, a black woman, and richard loving, a white man, went to washington, d. c. to be married. They went back to virginia to live, and a year later were charged with evading the anti-miscegenation law. They pleaded guilty and were sentenced to one year in jail. With the help of an american civil liberties union amendment equal protection rights were being violated. Supreme court affirmed the original convictions. suspended when the loving"s agreed to move out of virginia for a minimum attorney, the loving"s filed suit on the grounds that their fourteenth. Issue: 1) did virginia"s anti-miscegenation law violate the equal protection. The distinctions made according to the loving"s race were odious to free people and were subject to the most rigid scrutiny . The virginia law violated the due process clause of under the equal protection clause.
