“The Amendment nullifies sophisticated as well as simple-minded modes of discrimination.”

—  Felix Frankfurter

On the Fifteenth Amendment; writing for the court, Lane v. Wilson, 307 U.S. 268, 275 (1939).
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American judge 1882–1965

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