It was difficult to choose one quote from her Barbara opinion to quote because it's pages and pages of WE WUZ KANGZ shit.
I also really liked:
"The Government, the principal dissent, and a handful of revisionist commentators now vigorously promote an interpretation of the Citizenship Clause that diverges sharply not only from what the text says, but also from the historical record as interpreted by the keepers of “the call of remembrance” (trained historians)."
OH WAT A SCHOLAR! OH LAWDY DEM KEEPERS OF THE CALL OF REMEBERENCE! (citation: MY MASTERS!)
As I have shown in this opinion, the Fourteenth Amendment is not color-blind; rather, its core principle is that our Nation does not tolerate racial caste—i.e., the systemic subordination that many (even some who opposed slavery) had wished to perpetuate after the CivilWar.54 So, the architects of the Second Founding did not think or pretend that race didn’t matter. Quite to the contrary, they understood that race made an enormous difference to the lived experiences of all concerned—and to the fate of our union.
Her italics are so frustrating. I can hear her nigger shrew emphasis on words in my head. Another good one is at the end of her opinion:
The America that was reborn from the rubble of the Civil War simply does not countenance that inequitable result. Thankfully, a majority of the Court *remembered* this today,