Brown v. Board of Education

That was the Keyes case.

And it was very much falling on the heels of Brown v. the Board and important Supreme Court precedents.

So we try to look far beyond just the judges, but to pay attention to the issues lit against the lawyers and the judges.

So when people think about the Tenth Circuit and the states it's covered, you know, who aren't from there like me, maybe certain stereotypes raise the mind, maybe unfairly.

But this is just to make the point regarding the civil liberties.

In the other case, in Brown v.

Board of Education of Topeka decided in 1954, state law is required or permitted racial segregation in public schools.

The Supreme Court held that separate institutions educational facilities are inherently unequal because government imposed unequal treatment based on race.

Brown is primarily a civil rights and equal protection clause case.

Both cases challenged government action, but they identified different constitutional injuries, restricted expression in Tinker and state enforced equality in Brown.

Now I'm going to discuss a couple of other two major Supreme Court landmark cases, Gideon versus Wainwright back in 1963, which dealt with the right to counsel, and Loving versus Virginia back in 1967, which dealt with the freedom to marry.

Gideon and Loving show that some cases fit mainly within one category, while others require both liberty and equality.

wavelength.

So I would say that there's a lot of different places we could go with that because the resurgence of the concept of the American Confederacy really takes off after Brown v.

Board of Education in 1954.

And one of the really interesting dives there is what that's going to look like.

What are the political parties going to do with the fact that Black and Brown Americans are now voting or are going to be voting in increasing numbers, especially after the— the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

So what you get is you get the Brown v.

Board, and with Brown v.

Board, you get the resurgence of this idea of the American cowboy, which is very much an image of Reconstruction, that it was really designed in that era by former Confederates to suggest that a real American was an individualist guy who didn't need the federal government for anything.

Now, tell me, how does that jive? How does that match? You know, they tell, "Oh, it's jo- Oh, they don't have the training," or, "They're on drugs," or, or, "People just don't wanna work." No, it's no such thing as that.

You know, and I think it's just an extension based on, uh, it very closely parallels the 1954 desegregation decision case for the Supreme Court, Brown v. Topeka, that desegregated schools.

Now, that was 1954.

Sure.

Good evening.

It may be the most important ruling involving schools in America since Brown versus the Topeka Board of Education, which ended school segregation.

Tonight, the U.S. Supreme Court has sanctioned school vouchers.

I'm not saying I did it.