The Nation, April 12th, 1993
To fill the vacancy left by departing Associate Justice Byron White, the Supreme Court really needs a replacement for Thurgood Marshall. In recent years the Senate has expected little more of Court nominees than an unsullied resume. Marshall, by contrast, was a legal activist whose experience and self-identification were with the nation's have-nots, minorities, the dispossessed. The Court still needs a Justice who speaks for the history and aspirations of black America--a need mocked by George Bush's unforgivable nomination of Clarence Thomas. The often embattled legal legacy of the civil righ...
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