# Pitting UltraVires

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [September 22, 2018, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-ultravires/821734 "2018-09-22T16:05:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 17, 2021, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-ultravires/821734/366 "2021-06-17T10:36:13Z")

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West Virginia’s dumbest lawyer has decided he is the sole arbiter of when to celebrate the end of slavery.

> [@Congress Overwhelmingly Approves Juneteenth as New Federal Holiday](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congress-overwhelmingly-approves-juneteenth-as-new-federal-holiday/944440/3):
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> Why is June 19th marked as the holiday? The Thirteenth Amendment wasn’t ratified until December, 1865 and slavery was still legal in (at least) Delaware at the time. I don’t oppose a holiday to celebrate the end of slavery. It was a stain on our country. But to put June 19th as the date is just false history.

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