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A Clue
Many conservatives are adamantly declaring that water-boarding is not torture. The Attorney General can’t decide one way or the other. You want to know who could figure it out? The Mississippi Supreme Court. In 1922. Overturning the conviction of a Black man charged with killing a White guy, whose confession was gotten through “the water cure” (as water-boarding was known at the time).
It’s always a treat to dip beneath Jim Crow Mississippi on the scales of justice.
