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The Supreme Court just signed the death certificate of what remained of the Voting Rights Act. iPINIONS argues that the Roberts Court has turned democracy into a demolition derby, with Clarence Thomas serving as Pied Piper for a MAGA majority determined to recast protections for Black and Latino voters as racism against Whites. Read my… Read more.
Thurgood Marshall, the first Black Justice On this day in history, Thurgood Marshall became the first Black Supreme Court Justice, shattering racial barriers. He was the brilliant mind behind the strategy that eradicated state-sponsored segregation in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case. He founded The Legal Defense Fund to aid the Civil Rights… Read more.
Trust me, Ketanji Brown Jackson is far more qualified to fill Justice Breyer’s seat on the Supreme Court than Amy Coney Barrett. And Blacks everywhere should be proud and encouraged in equal measure that she is even more suited for this pioneering role, as the first Black woman, than Thurgood Marshall was as the first… Read more.
