https://www.axios.com/2024/05/23/clarence-thomas-supreme-court-racial-
segregation
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas issued a strong rebuke of the
Brown v. Board of Education ruling on Thursday, suggesting the court
overreached its authority in the landmark decision that banned
separating schoolchildren by race.
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Thomas attacked the Brown decision in a concurrence opinion that allowed
South Carolina to keep using a congressional map that critics say
discriminated against Black voters.
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The court "took a boundless view of equitable remedies" in the Brown
ruling, wrote Thomas, who in 1991 replaced Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall — the first Black Supreme Court Justice and the lead
lawyer in the Brown case.

Those remedies came through "extravagant uses of judicial power" to
end racial segregation in the 1950s and 60s, Thomas wrote.
Federal courts have limited power to grant equitable relief, "not
the flexible power to invent whatever new remedies may seem useful at
the time," he said, justifying his opinion to keep a predominantly white
congressional district in South Carolina.
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