What is Pace v. Alabama?
'''''Pace v. Alabama''''' was a unanimous 1883 [[United States Supreme Court]] (SCOTUS) ruling that said that [[Alabama]]'s law that forbade [[Miscegenation|people of different races from having sex with each other]] did not violate the [[Equal Protection Clause]] of the [[14th Amendment]] because both/all of the people involved in each act of interracial sex were punished equally.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/106/583/|title=Pace v. Alabama, 106 U.S. 583 (1883)|website=Justia Law}}</ref> ''Pace v. Alabama'' was overturned over 80 years later by ''[[McLaughlin v. Florida]]'' and ''[[Loving v. Virginia]]''. In 2010, M. Kelly Tillery said that ''Pace v. Alabama'' was one of the ten top worst SCOTUS decisions of all time.<ref>https://www.philadelphiabar.org/WebObjects/PBAReadOnly.woa/Contents/WebServerResources/CMSResources/TPL_summer2010_worst.pdf</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{multistub|US|politics}} [[Category:1883 in the United States]] [[Category:United States Supreme Court cases]] [[Category:United States law]]