“No state, no matter how advanced, is immune from flawed leadership, the erosion of political checks and balances, and the degradation of its institutions.”
― There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
― There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
“Looking to Jim Crow–era white society for guidance on how to bring about racial equality, of all things, is insane.”
― Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution
― Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution
“Please feel free to use any of my arguments against any conservatives in your life. Free of charge (well, free of additional charge). Indeed, I’ve tried to use as little legal jargon as possible to explain why conservatives are almost always entirely full of shit (full of shit being a term of art derived from the Latin: Borkium shittialis).”
― Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution
― Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution
“Instead of going higher, instead of looking at the ideals the Reconstruction Amendments represent, originalists again try to hobble them by limiting them to what dead white people may have thought.”
― Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution
― Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution
“The supposed rights of the unborn hold no moral suasion in a society that is willing to consign children who are born alive to poverty, malnutrition, and toxic air and water.”
― Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution
― Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution
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