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The Supreme Court's Invented Color-Blind Constitution is a National Tragedy

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By Eric Segall
| Dorf on Law
I do not know the best way to address the effects of centuries of legally sanctioned racist governmental policies. From slavery to Black Codes to segregation to red lining our country imposed the opposite of color-blind policies on Black Americans for most of our history. These policies treated them first as property, then as indentured workers, then as people white folks did not want in their schools or their neighborhoods.
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The Supreme Court Is Not a Court - and Reform Must Start There

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By Eric Segall
| JURIST Verified
Life tenure, unreviewable power and a partisan confirmation process make it impossible for the justices to act like judges. Whether the issue is redistricting, affirmative action, voting rights, abortion, presidential immunity, or any of the other country-defining issues that the Roberts Court has decided over the last two decades, there can be no doubt that the justices dramatically changed our nation’s politics and national identity. But the Roberts Court is not unique in its importance.
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We are All Constitutional Pluralists Now: Just ask Justice Brett Kavanaugh

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By Eric Segall
| Dorf on Law
Twenty-eight years ago, I wrote an article summarizing a pair of essays written in 1900 by Arthur Machen, Jr., in the Harvard Law Review. Machen was the first person to use the phrase the "living Constitution" in a legal essay.
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