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Justice Kennedy Notes The Constitution Protected Slavery -- Right-Wingers Freak Out

Apparently suggesting that slavery may have been a bad thing can still get you criticized.

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The Constitution of the United States is a flawed document… [its] thinly veiled language… basically reaffirmed the legality of slavery.

— Justice Anthony Kennedy, explaining something historically accurate and entirely obvious to anyone with a third-grade education. But that hasn’t stopped right-wing commentators from freaking… the hell… out, decrying Kennedy for suggesting that human bondage may undermine their totemic reliance on “original intent.” Because when the only justification for your preferred jurisprudence is that the Framers farted laser beams, a nuanced view of the Constitution isn’t in the cards.

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