Judging History
Oct. 15, 1911: U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan dies.Harlan understood the Constitution's demand for equality before the law and its promise of individual human dignity under the law. His conception of the intent and scope of the Reconstruction Amendments exceeded that of any Supreme Court justice of his generation and for over a generation after him. Harlan cast the lone dissents in the …
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