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Carlos Moore Summary

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The Supreme Court has just recently rejected a case about the Confederate Flag emblem being on the Mississippi flag, and Carlos Moore, an African-American man, who petitioned the court over his reason of how the flag, where it is located in state buildings, courts, and schools, symbolically expresses support for white supremacists. The justices didn’t exactly give a reasoning for the appeal, but a federal appeals court rejected the lawsuit, because of lack of standing. In the article it says “They said he demonstrated that he feels stigmatized. But feeling stigmatized, they said, isn't the kind of injury you can sue the state over." Carlos Moore, in his appeal to the Supreme Court, argued that the lower court interpreted the 14th amendment,
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