Trump v. Barbara · ¶90

Consider, first, the voices of those outside the chambers of the Senate and the House of Representatives, whose advocacy and organizing culminated in the Fourteenth Amendment. First in the North (as States abolished slavery), and then in the South (after Emancipation and the Union’s victory in the Civil War), Black people who were generally not permitted at the polls or in the halls of power mobilized nevertheless to advance the universalist vision of belonging and citizenship that eventually won the day.

slip opinion, revised 7/01/26
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