Word: colleages
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...noted that "it was not part of the judicial function to thwart public opinion except in extreme cases." And segregation, Rehnquist declared, "quite clearly is not one of those extreme cases ... I realize that it is an unpopular and unhumanitarian position, for which I have been excoriated by 'liberal' colleag[u]es, but I think Plessy v. Ferguson was right and should be re-affirmed." Plessy was the infamous 1896 ruling allowing "separate but equal" accommodations for blacks and whites. After the memo emerged, Rehnquist drafted a letter to a Senate ally in which he claimed that Jackson, by then...
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