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This Day in Legal History: John Marshall Harlan Dies
On October 14, 1911, Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan I died, closing the chapter on one of the Court’s most powerful voices of dissent. Appointed in 1877 by President Rutherford B. Hayes, Harlan served for 34 years and left an indelible mark on constitutional law—not through majority opinions, but through unwavering dissents that often read as moral indictments of the Court’s direction.
Most famously, Harlan stood alone in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), rejecting the Court’s embrace of “separate but equal” and warning that the…
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