The equal protection clause does not require proportional representation, ... meaningless ballots.
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History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.
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Customary greeting to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, What's shaking, chiefy baby.
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Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
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Even if all parties approach the court's mandate with the best of conscious intentions, ... that mandate requires them to confront and overcome their own racism on all levels a challenge I doubt all of them can meet.
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