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23 Sep 2023, 3:12 am
Today’s conservative revolution is very wrong, but it is not worse than [the Lochner Court and the Plessy v. [read post]
17 Jul 2023, 6:13 pm by Jonathan H. Adler
The language of colorblindness that Roberts and Thomas use to make their argument comes directly from Justice John Marshall Harlan's lonely dissent in Plessy v. [read post]
12 Jul 2023, 8:05 am
While the majority's treatment of the Fourteenth Amendment's history and original meaning was relatively brief, Justice Thomas authored a lengthy concurrence purporting to demonstrate the original meaning of the Equal Protection Clause and why affirmative action programs are inconsistent with the clause.In doing so, Justice Thomas defends a "colorblind" version of equal protection, drawing repeatedly on Justice Harlan's dissent in Plessy v. [read post]
3 Jul 2023, 5:23 pm
  The Supreme Court forever marred its reputation by allowing for the treatment of black and white “separate but equal” in its infamous Plessy v. [read post]
30 Jun 2023, 5:55 am by jonathanturley
It is also ironic to hear the President bewailing the reversal of precedent since the greatest advance in racial equality was the reversal of Plessy v. [read post]
29 Jun 2023, 9:31 am by Michael C. Dorf
It was thus possible to read prior precedents as emphasizing one or the other of two consecutive sentences in the first Justice Harlan's dissent in Plessy v. [read post]
3 Jun 2023, 3:36 am by SHG
” The majority in Plessy v. [read post]
7 May 2023, 6:00 am by Lawrence Solum
For example, the intention behind the equal protection clause might be formulated at a relatively high level of generality--leading to the conclusion that segregation is unconstitutional--or at a very particular level--in which case the fact that the Reconstruction Congress segregated the District of Columbia schools might be thought to support the "separate but equal" principle of Plessy v. [read post]
25 Apr 2023, 6:08 pm
";  and the Florida Supreme Court citing what it called the "still valid law of Plessy v. [read post]
11 Apr 2023, 5:55 am by Michael Dreeben
That both the United States and Israel are wrestling with these fundamental questions makes this an opportune time to revisit them. [read post]
25 Jan 2023, 8:00 am by Mark Graber
 State equality in the Senate constrains persons who believe in representation by population, configures politics by enabling low population states to receive far more than their fair share of federal funds, and constitutes politics when people assume that equal state representation is a natural feature of governance in the United States. [read post]
19 Dec 2022, 4:00 am by Eric Segall
 By Eric SegallThis was a no good, terrible, very bad year at the Supreme Court of the United States. [read post]