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Trump v. Barbara · ¶128

Ultimately, then, it is the Government and JUSTICE THOMAS who have “repurposed the Fourteenth Amendment.” Post, at 91. By ignoring that our Constitution stands firmly against caste and subjugation—on all axes and in all manners—they deny the clear, universalist vision shared and proclaimed by the Fourteenth Amendment’s Framers: to “rebuild a shattered empire . . . to plant deep and solid the corner-stone of eternal justice, and to erect thereon a superstructure of perfect equality of every human being before the law.”
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slip opinion, revised 7/01/26
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