When Amy Mil Totenberg swore her oath of office as a federal judge in Atlanta on May 9, she placed her hand on a well-worn copy of the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution, bound in a single edition that was published in 1858.
That year, Abraham Lincoln-speaking at the Republican Convention as the nation’s divisions over slavery grew increasingly stark-proclaimed, “A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free,” which Totenberg recited at her public investiture ceremony.
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