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McCarthy’s Law

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

CHAPTER

The Impact of the Civil Rights Statute on the Supreme Court

In the more freewheeling era of the Supreme Court, Justice Thurgood Marshall wrote a case called Anderson. He applied the civil rights statute to not a context of violence, but ballot stuffing. The question is how far out of its original context is the court going to allow it to be drawn? And what I think they can say and will say is that we wouldn't have come out the same way Justice Marshall did on the ballot stuffing case because it's too far removed from what the original understanding was.

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