Damned lies and gun control
May 09, 2021
2 minutes
JONATHAN KRONSTADT
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n 1991, President George HW Bush – the brightest bulb in the family lamp – nominated archconservative Clarence Thomas to be just the second black US Supreme Court justice, replacing the first, arch-liberal Thurgood Marshall. Everyone over the age of seven knew Thomas was picked because he was black, but at the press conference introducing him, Bush said, “The fact that he is black and a
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