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See No Evil: Sotomayor highlights the Roberts Court’s blind eye to discrimination

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See No Evil: Sotomayor highlights the Roberts Court’s blind eye to discrimination

June 22, 2020 08:44:11 pm

Today, the U.S. legal system faces a public that is becoming increasingly impatient with systemic unequal protection of the law. As the peaceful arbiter of disputes in a democratic society, the judiciary cannot stray too far from that public, lest its legitimacy be lost. However, recent Supreme Court jurisprudence has pulled that judiciary further from [...]

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