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When the Supreme Court heard arguments about affirmative action this week,

Slates, marches of stern, was surprised.

Not by the cases at hand, he'd been watching and waiting for those to land at the court for years.

He wasn't surprised by the epically long oral arguments either.

Or by the many, many lawyers who threw themselves at the mercy of the justices,

one by one.

What surprised Mark was the nature of the arguments the justice is unspulled.

What was so remarkable is that the actual constitution, like the 14th Amendment's equal

protection clause, which is ostensibly at the heart of these cases,

it did not really come up until halfway through arguments.

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