
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer in Conversation with David Rubenstein
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Justice Ginsburg, You Don't Always Get What You Want
When i clerked, i felt it was a court with a mission. What mission? In 19 54, the court had decided that place v ferguson rightly was down the drain and legal segregation is contrary to this document equal protection of the law. And we both know what happened in 19 55. Nothing, next to nothing.19 56, yes, double nothing. 19 57, a rather brave judge in little rock said, those nine brave black students are going into that white school,. But the governor, governor faubus said, maybe those students have a court order, but i have the state militia, and they're not. He called in a thousand troops from from fort the hundred
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