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Ponietz

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1. John Roberts: "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race"

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Wed Jul 1, 2026, 10:44 AM

Jul 1

That worked for the SCROTUS Six in affirmative action and other cases, but the dissenters turn around and discriminate on the basis of race analyzing the 14th Amendment in a different context.
Disingenuous, convoluted and impossible to untangle a viable legal principle. Just self-serving partisan hypocritical bullshit.

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