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TIL former supreme court justice James McReynolds was blatantly anti-Semitic. He refused to speak to Louis Brandeis, the first Jewish member of the Court, for three years & habitually left the conference room whenever Brandeis spoke. He also left the courtroom whenever a female lawyer argued a case.
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TIL that the Supreme Court says ignorance of the law is no excuse - unless you’re a cop.
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TIL In 2010, The Texas Board of Education removed founding father, Thomas Jefferson, from the state social studies curriculum because of his beliefs in deism and replaced him with the religious right icon John Calvin.