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The drafters of the amendment wanted to consign Dred Scott to the dustbin of history—not only by abolishing slavery, but also by compelling the government to forever recognize the equal citizenship of all people born in the U.S., so that no caste of “inferior” people could ever again be established.

Throw a dart anywhere on a world map and she’s there, or has been there, leading nations and governments that Americans often label as inferior or intolerant.

“It’s not like,” Cronin said of his practices, “you’re just playing against a guy who’s inferior to you.”

To suggest that a Black person is lazy is a very old white racist stereotype that has its origins in white on Black chattel slavery and the American apartheid system that deemed Black people as incapable of full citizenship, “natural” slaves, childlike and members of a subordinate and inferior group that was unfit for freedom.

The motion goes into the weeds of the Constitution’s appointments clause, which says that Congress can give the president, courts of the law, or heads of departments the authority to appoint inferior officers.