![]() ![]() ![]() Canellos published a new biography of Harlan, The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America’s Judicial Hero. Yet his record is not unblemished: He distrusted immigrants from China and even voted to deny citizenship to their U.S.-born children. Ferguson and his series of dissents in the Insular Cases, among many others. ![]() Harlan’s moral vision is memorialized in his lone dissent in Plessy v. During his time as an associate justice from 1877 to 1911, he broke with his colleagues in some of the most consequential – and infamous – rulings that the court has ever issued. More than a century before Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg became legendary for her biting dissents, Justice John Marshall Harlan I was the original notorious dissenter. ![]() And he was surely correct in understanding that the equal protection clause must mean that one race never can be superior or subordinate to another. He was prescient in recognizing the need for a strong national government to deal with urgent issues, such as civil rights. History has vindicated John Marshall Harlan, who dissented in some of the Supreme Court’s worst decisions concerning race and limiting the scope of federal power. 21, 1911) (an African American newspaper) There is no man in this country to whom the colored race is more indebted. ![]()
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