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Up for Grabs. The Supreme Court and the Election
Wicker, Tom | October 9, 2000 issue

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No issue is more vital in the race between Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush--repeat, no issue is more important than the makeup of the next Supreme Court--and therefore the future outlook for reproductive rights, civil rights, campaign finance reform, environmental protection and perhaps much, much more. It was the Supreme Court, of course, that held in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, one of its most historic decisions, that public school segregation violated the Constitution. That decision opened not just the schoolhouse door but the gate to the modern civil rights movement, which in the past half-century has so nearly transformed the nation.

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BROWN v. Board of Education of Topeka (Supreme Court case); CIVIL rights; UNITED States. Supreme Court; BUSH, George W. (George Walker), 1946-; ENVIRONMENTAL protection; UNITED States
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