from Jim Ho (a friend of mine who is an appellate lawyer at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher) to Justice Stevens’ opinion in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School Dist. No. 1:
“There is a cruel irony in The Chief Justice’s reliance on our decision in Brown v. Board of Education, 349 U. S. 294 (1955). The first sentence in the concluding paragraph of his opinion states: ‘Before Brown, schoolchildren were told where they could and could not go to school based on the color of their skin.’ Ante, at 40. This sentence reminds me of Anatole France