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Richard Blumenthal: “Actually, Chief Justice Warren asked Justice Frankfurter to find an originalist justification for Brown.”

On the recordMarch 19, 2017
Actually, Chief Justice Warren asked Justice Frankfurter to find an originalist justification for Brown.
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

Editor's note · Context

Blumenthal references historical attempts to justify Brown v. Board of Education through originalism.

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