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Justice Henry Billings Brown and reasonableness in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
The Daily Telegram via Yahoo News· 1 year agoYou will get a debate among legal pundits (I hesitate to call them scholars) on which was more...
The Supreme Court has lost my respect with its rulings this session | Opinion
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSince its establishment in 1789, the United States Supreme Court has dealt with various cases for...
Homer Plessy
Biography via Yahoo News· 5 months agoHomer PlessyBiography; Getty Images (silhouette, Supreme Court justices), Wikimedia Commons (railroad), National Archives and Records Administration...
Why the Court’s Civil Rights Hero Might Have Opposed Affirmative Action
Politico via Yahoo News· 1 year agoDuring a period of intense debate over affirmative action in 1987, Thurgood Marshall, the nation’s first Black Supreme Court justice, was called upon to defend one of his judicial heroes, John ...
Five times the Supreme Court reversed a precedent
The Hill via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe leak of a Supreme Court draft opinion this week that would overturn the landmark 1973 decision Roe v. Wade has raised fresh questions about when, if...
Mary Church Terrell: Black history icon and early architect of the civil rights movement
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMary Church Terrell was a reserved, yet outspoken activist who laid the foundation for the civil...
Supreme Court Declares Affirmative Action In Education Unconstitutional
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThe Supreme Court declared affirmative action programs at public and private colleges and...
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson (2022) v. John Marshall Harlan (1896) on affirmative action
The Daily Telegram via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Supreme Court recently held extended argument on the divisive issue of affirmative action, where...
Where were the first schools in Palm Beach County? What to know about the first 6
Palm Beach Daily News via Yahoo News· 6 months agoFormalized education in Palm Beach County goes back 137 years to the area's first one-room...
Abortion: Sen. Mitch McConnell doesn't foresee a national ban now that Roe v. Wade is gone
Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFLORENCE, Kentucky — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday he does not foresee...