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Dan Canon is a civil rights lawyer, educator and author of "Pleading Out: How Plea Bargaining Creates a Permanent Criminal Class." He was lead counsel for the Kentucky plaintiffs in Obergefell v. Hodges, which brought marriage equality to all 50 states.

Associate Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor looks on during an installation ceremony for US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales at the US Department of Justice 14 February 2005 in Washington, DC. (PAUL J.RICHARDS/AFP via Getty Images)

No, Sandra Day O’Connor wasn’t that great

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Police holding rubber-bullet guns and batons move to disperse a crowd of abortion rights activists protesting after the overturning of Roe Vs. Wade by the US Supreme Court, in Downtown Los Angeles, on June 24, 2022. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

The right’s war on abortion will become the new War on Drugs

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Pro-choice demonstrators, including Emma Harris, left, and Ellie Small, center, both students at George Washington University gather in front of the Supreme Court of the United States on Tuesday, May 3, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

So what happens now, after the downfall of Roe? Not anything good

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Desk at night (Getty Images/CTRd)

Lawyers and Secondary Traumatic Stress, or: On the dispersal of brain matter in a Kentucky trailer

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Same-sex marriage supporter waves a rainbow pride flag near the Supreme Court, April 28, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

I was one of the lawyers who helped win marriage equality. And yes, the GOP can take it away

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Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018. (AP/Win McNamee)

I too am savagely impartial and should be a Supreme Court Justice

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African American slaves harvesting and packing of cotton in Louisiana, 1886. (Getty/duncan1890)

Why can’t we talk about reparations? A congressional candidate broaches an unmentionable topic

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Trump supporters at a campaign rally (Getty/Joe Raedle)

This is how they try to make America white again

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