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William Rivers Pitt | He Can Marry, She Can't Vote: Another Day in Deranged America

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William Rivers Pitt | He Can Marry, She Can't Vote: Another Day in Deranged America

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "One segment of the nation is lifted out of apartheid, another is shoved back down into it, and a Justice of the Supreme Court can't remember his justification for the latter a day after ruling against the former."

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