Greater than Holmes? The life and legacy of John Marshall Harlan
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 13, 2022
He is also a graduate of Columbia Law School. In the end, though, a large part of the story turned on the question of just what it was that enabled Harlan to see the law so differently from his peers. He was demonstrating that the purpose of Louisiana’s law was to separate Black people, not to treat every race equally.
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