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===Judicial service===
 
===Judicial service===
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In 1903, President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] appointed Pritchard to become an associate justice for the Supreme Court of Washington, D.C., and later the former senator became a circuit court judge. During this time, Pritchard actively pushed against Jim Crow laws, advocating an end to the discriminatory "grandfather clause."<ref name=fascinatingpolitics/>
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Pritchard, being a leader of the lily-white movement, became an adviser to President [[Theodore Roosevelt]].<ref name=lilywhitemovement/> In 1903, President Roosevelt appointed him to become an associate justice for the Supreme Court of Washington, D.C., and later a circuit court judge the following year.
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During this time, Pritchard reversed his lily white politics actively pushed against Jim Crow laws, advocating an end to the discriminatory "grandfather clause."<ref name=fascinatingpolitics/>
    
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