BREAKING: Supreme Court overturns Mississippi murder conviction on racial bias grounds

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19. His earlier opinions did show hostility to civil rights

But I suspect that Kavanaugh's exposure to civil rights and the ugliest types of criminal justice abuses was somewhat limited. As a judge on the appellate court for the DC Circuit, he probably didn't have to deal with the most egregious kinds of violations

Being confronted with "Mississippi justice" may have been a shock. We're not talking about affirmative action or subtle voter suppression or not letting the black guy into the club not because he's black, you know, but because he won't "fit in."

This may have been the first time he's seen something like this where the state barely even tried to hide it's blatant discrimination in a life or death matter.

He sounds really pissed.