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  1. Since 1957, when Dwight Eisenhower sent federal troops to Arkansas, to enforce #BrownvBoardOfEducation, powerful #politicians have mostly agreed to honor & enforce the decisions of #SCOTUS, a convention that had been flagrantly defied by several southern governors of that era. (It had been defied earlier, too, by President #AndrewJackson, who, when #ChiefJustice #JohnMarshall ruled in 1832 that treaties made w/the Cherokees must be respected, was alleged to have said, “Let him enforce it”…)
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