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The U.S. Supreme Court's primary function is to interpret laws and determine their Constitutionality. Most cases that reach the Supreme Court involve complex questions that could not be answered in any lower court. In a 1988 interview, Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, William Brennan, Harry Blackmun, and Chief Justice William Rehnquist weighed in on the unique role the Supreme Court played in shaping the law, and how cases reached the court.
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NewsHour correspondent Jeffrey Brown talks to Laurence Tribe, a professor at Harvard Law School who had Chief Justice John Roberts and President Obama as students, and David Rivkin, who represented the states that challenged the health care law, about what the Supreme Court's landmark health care ruling means and its broader impacts. Origina?
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Civil rights attorney Thurgood Marshall's triumph in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision to desegregate America's public schools completed the final leg of an heroic journey to end legal segregation. For 20 years, during wartime and the Depression, Marshall had traveled hundreds of thousands of miles through the Jim Crow South of the United States, fighting segregation case by case, establishing precedent after precedent, all...