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So this is just something I became recently interested in, but I was wondering if a more active Supreme Court could help maintain the rights that briefly existed during Reconstruction but were then stamped out by organizations like the Red Shirts, White League, and Ku Klux Klan (and of course Southern state governments).

A brief google quickly revealed a couple of cases :
  • Mississippi v Johnson
  • Georgia v Stanton
  • Slaughter-House Cases
That IMO if they were handled differently might've served to help cement some of the rights gained (and subsequently lost) in the Reconstruction era. I haven't been able to research much yet, but I'd imagine this will likely require some different people to be on the court (which at the time had 10 members).

Is there anyone here that has more knowledge on this? Any ideas on how something like this would've worked?
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