Greater than Holmes? The life and legacy of John Marshall Harlan
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 13, 2022
Yet his record is not unblemished: He distrusted immigrants from China and even voted to deny citizenship to their U.S.-born Having lived through Dred Scott , he was deeply conscious of how mistakes by the court could lead to terrible outcomes. Harlan’s moral vision is memorialized in his lone dissent in Plessy v. born children.
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