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Supreme Court Nomination in Black and Brown

By Tracie Powell and CQ Guest Columnist
Posted May 29, 2009 at 12:00am

reverse racist
intellectual heft
Latina judges are better than white male judges.
political prognosticators
will be the majority.
Allert Brown-Gort,
thawing of iciness
Until now.
Cesar Chavez
Sixty-seven percent of Hispanic Americans
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Tracie Powell is a former American Political Science Association congressional fellow who writes regularly on politics and policy.

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