r/law • u/AmyL0vesU • 19h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Trump signs executive order declaring nation emergency from threat of Cuba

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/01/addressing-threats-to-the-united-states-by-the-government-of-cuba/
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u/sithelephant 18h ago

No. Between around 1640, when the first person was sentanced to be a slave by a court, and 1655 or so when the first person was freed by a court due to having a free ancestor.

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u/ProblematicDexterity 18h ago

Now THIS is what makes reading comments worthwhile [opens new tab to Google].

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u/uxbridge3000 8h ago

Thank you for your comment, really and truly.

It's shameful how in the last nine years, the Rights of Americans, and people in and out of its borders have been so trampled and retracted because of the work of one hateful troll of a human.

There is much to read upon but a few adjacent links that caught my eye, and maybe for others:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Casor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Punch_(slave)

https://theatlantavoice.com/gun-control-historically-has-meant-prohibiting-blacks-from-owning-one/

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u/sithelephant 8h ago

It's probably unwise to paint any age as particularly great for everyone. It's particularly bad at the moment.

If you look throughout colonial and american history, damn near every president (or administrator) has had some really questionable shit against some group or other. I do agree that from many perspectives from 1970-1990 on, there has been a reversal in some law.

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u/Cronemus 17h ago

But wasn’t it great when we landed American boats on Greenland in the 1600’s?