Perhaps the most important lesson promulgated by the TRC is that ‘both sides in the Struggle did horrible things’. If one accepted this view, one might have come to see the Struggle over apartheid as one of ‘pretty good good’ against ‘pretty bad bad’, not as absolute good versus inf.
Most of the spotlights are on the U.S. Supreme Court when it comes to legal cases that impact civil rights. But state supreme courts are the final arbiters of what each state s own constitution dictates.
A new book from political scientists James Gibson and Michael Nelson says that state supreme courts largely reflect the dominant political coalitions of their states and are unlikely to serve as an independent force in matters around inequality. Here, the authors tell Law360 why state supreme courts deserve more attention and what questions are left unanswered by their research.
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