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elleng

(141,575 posts) Sun Nov 16, 2025, 10:02 PM Sunday

'Loving' on HBO.

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'Tell the judge I love my wife.'

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'Loving' on HBO. (Original Post) elleng Sunday OP

Assuming this is about /Virginia vs Loving/, challenging the (then) illegality of interracial marriage ? nt eppur_se_muova Sunday #1

Yes, it's the whole story. elleng Sunday #2

eppur_se_muova

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1. Assuming this is about /Virginia vs Loving/, challenging the (then) illegality of interracial marriage ? nt

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Sun Nov 16, 2025, 10:58 PM

Sunday

elleng

(141,575 posts)

2. Yes, it's the whole story.

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Reply #1)

Sun Nov 16, 2025, 11:02 PM

Sunday

Loving v VA

388 U.S. 1, was a landmark civil rights decision of the United States Supreme Court that ruled that the laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Wikipedia

decided: June 12, 1967

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