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Blight: Thomas's dissent reflects 'an ideology in search of a history'
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Pulitzer Prize-winning Yale historian David Blight joins MS NOW's Lawrence O'Donnell after Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued a rare concurrence directly challenging Justice Clarence Thomas's interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment. Blight argues that the dissenting justices bring "a political and racial ideology in search of a history that's not there," explaining why he believes the historical record of Reconstruction contradicts their reading of birthright citizenship.
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