The late Justice Sandra Day O'Connor’s iCivics curriculum has been shown to boost knowledge of the political process.
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The first female justice on the Supreme Court was also the last justice to have served as an elected official. And her contributions to the court reflected her political experience and pragmatism.
The Supreme Court’s decision to ban affirmative action programs reverses nearly 50 years of its own decisions that ruled diversity was of vital national importance.
The justices who decided to overturn the abortion rights precedent of Roe v. Wade explained their reasoning, and signaled other precedents could be reversed as well.
There is value in observing legal precedent, but sometimes circumstances, logic or judges’ views determine it’s time to overturn it.
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Professor of Political Science, Hamline University
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Lenore Stern Professor in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Tufts University
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Oklahoma State University
