A Powerful, Forgotten Dissent

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Among the thousands of cases the Supreme Court has decided, only a handful of dissenting opinions stand out. There is Justice John Marshall Harlan’s solitary dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 decision upholding the doctrine of “separate but equal.” “All citizens are equal before the law,” Harlan objected. “There is in this country no […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/10/06/breaking-the-promise-of-brown-stephen-breyer/

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