‘Seems Pretty Suspect’: A Pioneering Black Judge Was Set to Have a Federal Building Named In His Honor, Until a 1999 Article Resurfaced and GOP Members Blocked the Measure
A bill to name a federal building after the first Black judge on the Florida Supreme Court was expected to breeze through the U.S. House last month after being unanimously approved in the Senate, but a Georgia Republican quickly turned a flock of GOP members against Justice Joseph W. Hatchett, ultimately killing the bill. The…