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The one face of Sen. Ted Cruz

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On September 22, 2018
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr would oppose athletes who kneel during the national anthem to protest police violence against black people. My opponent thinks it is wrong to smear an African-American man who ‘found himself murdered‘ in his home by a off-duty police officer who claims she accidentally blundered into his apartment. Quelle honte! In […]
On the issue of affirmative action and the alleged principled “originalism” of the Court’s conservatives, Simon Lazurus has a very good summary: On the contrary, as legal and historical scholars — 60 of whom signed an amicus curiae brief to the Court — have exhaustively demonstrated in scores of books and scholarly articles, Reconstruction Congresses, […]

Indeed

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In civil rights , Supreme Court
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On June 28, 2007
Stevens, dissenting in the Seattle integration case: There is a cruel irony in The Chief Justice’s reliance on our decision in Brown v. Board of Education, The first sentence in the concluding paragraph of his opinion states: “Before Brown, schoolchildren were told where they could and could not go to school based on the color […]
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