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The strongest divisions in our politics may have emerged from patterns of early American settlement.

Jews could neither vote nor hold office in some parts of the early American republic.

Actually, datura grows naturally in the U.S. and was well known to early American colonists.

Peter Mancall, a history professor at USC, has delved into major moments of political violence in early American history, and said a lot of it stemmed from “some perception of grievance.”

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As Justice Sonia Sotomayor points out in her furious dissent, Barrett’s history lesson is, at a minimum, dubious: There is a “long history of injunctive relief granted to nonparties,” including in the Court of Chancery and early American courts.

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