BY WALTER OPINDE On a date like this, 27th June, Justice Thurgood Marshall, a living hero of the civil rights movement and one of the last liberal voices on the Supreme Court, announced his retirement after 24 years of service, which ended in mounting anger and discouragement as he watched the ascendancy of a conservative-dominated […]
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