The Fourteenth Amendment Is Not Directed Against Discrimination

The supreme court issued its unanimous decision on may third 19 54. By being denied, a jury of his peers, including mexican americans, pee hernandoz had been denied fourteenth amendment protections and this denial was unconstitutional. The result bespeaks discrimination, whether or not it was a conscious decision on the part of any individual jury commissioner. Hernandez versus texas was notable and influential in a of ways, since it set the groundwork for fighting other forms of discrimination against them.