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Thompson V. Shapiro: Residence Requirements And The Right To Life
Thompson V. Shapiro: Residence Requirements And The Right To Life
The Catholic Lawyer
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State Not Required To Provide Counsel On Appeal To Supreme Court
State Not Required To Provide Counsel On Appeal To Supreme Court
The Catholic Lawyer
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Blind Injustice: The Supreme Court, Implicit Racial Bias, And The Racial Disparity In The Criminal Justice System, Tyler Rose Clemons
Blind Injustice: The Supreme Court, Implicit Racial Bias, And The Racial Disparity In The Criminal Justice System, Tyler Rose Clemons
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“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” This statement by Chief Justice John Roberts in 2007 is alluring in both its grammatical symmetry and its logical simplicity. Yet it encapsulates the naiveté of the view of racial discrimination currently held by the majority of the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. Chief Justice Roberts’s assertion contains the implied assumption that the only racial discrimination that exists—or at least the only kind that matters under the Constitution—is explicit and susceptible to conscious control. Decades of …