Rule of Law
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Thurgood Marshall as an Advocate
ArticleBefore he was a Supreme Court Justice, Marshall advocated for civil rights as a lawyer with the NAACP.
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The Cherokee Nation Cases
Significant CaseThe lawsuits that forced the examination of the relationship between law and politics, particularly with respect to the Supreme Court’s ability to enforce its judgment during the early years of the Republic.
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Joseph Story
Life StoryThe poet-at-heart who became the youngest Associate Justice of the Supreme Court and a leading Constitutional scholar whose work continues to influence modern interpretations of law.
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John Marshall
Life StoryThe soldier, attorney, and American statesman who became the longest serving Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
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Gus Garcia
Life StoryThe charismatic attorney who fought for civil rights and worked with the first Mexican-American legal team to argue before the Supreme Court.
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Griswold v. Connecticut
Significant CaseThe first Supreme Court case linking reproduction to the right to privacy.
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Fletcher v. Peck
Significant CaseThe first time the Supreme Court declared a state law unconstitutional and a formative decision interpreting the Commerce Clause.
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Constance Baker Motley
Life StoryThe daughter of Caribbean immigrants who became a monumental civil rights advocate, pioneer in politics, and the first Black woman to argue before the Supreme Court and to serve as a federal district judge.
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Brown as the Beginning
Significant CaseThe landmark Supreme Court decision that declared public school segregation unconstitutional and led to wider civil rights victories in the 1960s.
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Browder v. Gayle
Significant CaseThe Supreme Court’s affirmation of a district court decision to outlaw segregated bussing in Montgomery, Alabama that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson.
