And as a Harvard Law Review essay argues, Congress authorized preclearance -- Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act -- under Section 5 of the 14th Amendment.

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He finished law school in 1991, having served as the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, and then returned to Chicago to teach constitutional law and practice as a civil rights lawyer.

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He graduated from Horace Mann School, received his undergraduate degree from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and his law degree from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

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He attended Harvard Law School in 1991 and became the first-African American president of the school's law review.

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She is a magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard-Radcliffe College, and a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, where she was Supervising Editor of the Harvard Law Review.

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