Civil rights attorney Leo Terrell said during a Wednesday Fox News appearance that due to a lack of “direct harm,” reparations for slavery would be “unconstitutional.”
Fox News host Harris Faulkner played a clip of Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee of California discussing her May 2023 proposal for a “United States Commission on Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation” in August prior to the Democratic National Convention. Terrell said that reparations would be based on “skin color” and that such a measure would run against the Constitution.
“I want to be clear as possible with 35 years of practicing law. Federal reparations is impossible, unconstitutional. Why? There’s no causation,” Terrell told Faulkner. “You can’t give out taxpayer federal government money based on skin color. No American today is responsible for the sins of slavery. No American today can show harm, direct harm, from the sins of slavery.”
Leo knows what he’s talking about! He’s a good, honest and fair man.