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I enjoy reading about the Supreme Court and I love it when they use their mighty hammers of justice to strike down an unconstitutional law. However, when scholars talk about the court, they say they don't ever go too far ahead of the populace, and always use the example of Jim Crow laws being overturned by Congress, not the Court.

That got me thinking. What would happen if the civil rights movement used the court, not the legislature, to get rid of those laws, say in the 1950s? Would this change American politics at all if Congress doesn't touch the issue? Would the debate over the court intensify?
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