Book contents
- Critical Race Judgments
- Critical Race Judgments
- Copyright page
- Contents
- About the Contributors
- Advisory Committee
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 347 U.S. 483 (1954)BROWN et al.
- Part I Membership and Inclusion
- Part II Participation and Access
- Part III Property and Space
- Part IV Intimate Choice and Autonomy
- Part V Justice
- 92 U.S. 542Supreme Court of the United States
- 481 U.S. 279Supreme Court of the United States
- 92 U.S. 542Supreme Court of the United States
- 418 U.S. 24Supreme Court of the United States
- 782 F.2d 1038 Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
- __ U.S. __ (1971)Supreme Court of the United States
- 28 S. Ct. 324Supreme Court of the United States
- United States Court of AppealsFor the District of Columbia Circuit
- Stopping the Conversation about Isolation by Race and Poverty Before It Really Began: The Case of San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez, 411 U.S. 1 (1973)
Stopping the Conversation about Isolation by Race and Poverty Before It Really Began: The Case of San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez, 411 U.S. 1 (1973)
from Part V - Justice
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 April 2022
- Critical Race Judgments
- Critical Race Judgments
- Copyright page
- Contents
- About the Contributors
- Advisory Committee
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 347 U.S. 483 (1954)BROWN et al.
- Part I Membership and Inclusion
- Part II Participation and Access
- Part III Property and Space
- Part IV Intimate Choice and Autonomy
- Part V Justice
- 92 U.S. 542Supreme Court of the United States
- 481 U.S. 279Supreme Court of the United States
- 92 U.S. 542Supreme Court of the United States
- 418 U.S. 24Supreme Court of the United States
- 782 F.2d 1038 Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
- __ U.S. __ (1971)Supreme Court of the United States
- 28 S. Ct. 324Supreme Court of the United States
- United States Court of AppealsFor the District of Columbia Circuit
- Stopping the Conversation about Isolation by Race and Poverty Before It Really Began: The Case of San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez, 411 U.S. 1 (1973)
Summary
I have recently retired from the United States Supreme Court. It’s true that as a justice, I had life tenure, but I wanted time to reflect on the cases I had decided during my long career on the bench. And, so I am sorting through old notes, correspondence, drafts, and opinions to make sense of my jurisprudential legacy, such as it is. The process has made me feel a bit like Jorge Luis Borges in “The Other,” when as an old man, he unexpectedly meets a younger version of himself. The elder Borges realizes that the distance between him and his youthful doppelganger is not just chronological but psychological and philosophical – and, more importantly, utterly unbridgeable. Jorge Luis Borges, The Book of Sand 11 (1977). As I sift through my records, I have similar encounters with myself as a fledgling jurist. I was confident then that I had done everything possible to achieve just results in every case. Now, I look back and realize that I made some irretrievable mistakes, though all in good faith. They are oversights that I am able to appreciate only in hindsight, though that does not mean I feel any less regret.
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- Critical Race JudgmentsRewritten U.S. Court Opinions on Race and the Law, pp. 675 - 694Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022