As the state Legislature prepares to convene Monday with new pandemic protocols, Walsh, R-Aberdeen, has filed legislation that would make it unlawful to ban state lawmakers from parts of the Capitol based on their vaccination status.
In one of his bills, Walsh compares the state House’s recent vaccination requirements to racial segregation.
“… Such segregation violates the spirit and letter of the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which stated clearly that separate is not equal,” the text of House Bill 1695 reads.
In an email Tuesday, the chair of the Legislature’s Black Members caucus, state Rep. Jamila Taylor, denounced Walsh’s comparison as “ridiculous” and
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