Will the Supreme Court Really Overturn Brown v. Board of Ed?
What happened? The U.S. Supreme Court heard two school-integration cases in Seattle, Wash. and Louisville, Ky. on Dec. 4. The school systems employ race-conscious enrollment policies to ensure racial balance in the districts, both of which have a history of segregation. Both sides used Brown vs. Board of Education to defend their arguments. What’s in the blogs? Is Brown v. Board of Education really on trial? Supreme Court bloggers debate the legacy of Brown vs. Board of Education and analyze whether or not the high court will have sufficient evidence to prove the school’s policies violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Ultimately, it may all come down to semantics. Read more. (See also: ‘A Reversal of Historic Proportions’: Brown v. Board of Ed May Be Overturned) President Bush may have botched the war in Iraq, but he made a few fans with his conservative restructuring of the Supreme Court. Center for Equal Opportunity CEO Linda Chavez, an ally of Ward Connerly’s, i
