Ketanji Brown Jackson: “Those plans are not before this Court.”

Despite his longstanding endorsement of a ‘colorblind’ Constitution, Justice Thomas, now surprisingly suggests that the Citizenship Clause was a race-conscious remedial measure, relating only to ‘freed slaves such as Dred Scott’ — but that…

The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.

I try to be very, very mindful and scrupulous with respect to that because, as you say, our obligation is to be unbiased in our approach.

Today’s decision makes one thing clear: The Court’s objective is protecting guns, not consistently preserving any principle of law.