In late June 2026, the Supreme Court decided the case Blanche v. Lau, which set new standards for some returning green card holders in the United States. On MS NOW, Affiliated Faculty Member Kermit Roosevelt draws parallels between what is happening today in the United States and the period immediately following reconstruction in the post-Civil War South.
Kermit Roosevelt is the David Berger Professor for the Administration of Justice and a member of CERL’s Affiliated Faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. Read his bio here.
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