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Brett Kavanaugh just won a surprising victory for racial justice

Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the majority opinion in Pitchford v. Cain. | Aaron Schwartz/AFP via Getty Images Justice Brett Kavanaugh is a Republican. He served in a Republican White House, typically votes with the Court’s other Republicans, and even sometimes sides with President Donald Trump in major cases that divide the Republican Party. He’s not the sort of person you’d expect to carry a torch for a liberal cause for nearly four full decades. But, well, he did. In Kavanaugh’s majority opinion in Pitchford v. Cain, which was handed down on Thursday, the justice more or less imple...