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1. Blight: Thomas's dissent reflects 'an ideology in search of a history'

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Sun Jul 5, 2026, 07:57 PM

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Professor Blight had a great discussion of this dissent on The Last Word. Thomas is an idiot who did a 90 page dissent that is historically worthless.

Pulitzer Prize-winning Yale historian David Blight joins MS NOW's Lawrence O'Donnell after Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued a rare concurrence directly challenging Justice Clarence Thomas's interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment.

youtube.com/watch?v=gQeI...
— Lizardrath ðŸ’™ (@lizardrath.bsky.social) 2026-07-01T04:25:56.699Z

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