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133 Harv. L. Rev. 1 (2019-2020)
Abolition Constitutionalism

handle is hein.journals/hlr133 and id is 8 raw text is: VOLUME 133 NOVEMBER 2019 NUMBER 1 I HARVARD LAW REVIEW © 2019 by The Harvard Law Review Association THE SUPREME COURT 2018 TERM FOREWORD: ABOLITION CONSTITUTIONALISM Dorothy E. Roberts CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................3 I. THE NEW ABOLITIONISTS ..................................................................................................11 A. The Prison Industrial Complex and the Carceral State .............................................. 12 B. Abolition Praxis: Past, Present, Future......................................................................19 T. Slavery Origins..............................................................................................................19 (a) P o lice .......................................................................................................................20 (b) Prisons ..................................................................................................................... 29 (c) Death Penalty .........................................................................................................38 2. Not a Malfunction .......................................................................................................42 3. A Society Without Prisons .........................................................................................43 C. The Unfinished Abolition Struggle..................................................................................48 II. ABOLITION AND THE CONSTITUTION............................................................................49 A. The Settler-Colonial and Slavery Constitution..............................................................51 B. The Radical History of the Reconstruction Amendments.............................................54 C. The Reconstruction Constitution.....................................................................................62 D. The Court's Anti-Abolition Jurisprudence ......................................................................71 . Constitutional Counterrevolution ...............................................................................73 2. The Court's Current Anti-Abolition Doctrines ......................................................75 (a) C olorblindness...................................................................................................77 (b) Discriminatory Purpose Requirement .................................................................85 (c) Fear of Too Much Justice......................................................................................90 E. Flowers v. Mississippi ....................................................................................................... 93 . Justice Kavanaugh's Compromise...............................................................................94 2. Applying Abolition Constitutionalism to Flowers ....................................................99 III. TOWARD A NEW ABOLITION CONSTITUTIONALISM.................................................105 A. Approaching the Constitution Instrumentally ..............................................................105 11

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