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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2020

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Boynton went on to spend his career as a civil rights lawyer (even though his home state of Alabama refused to give him a law license for six years because of his involvement in the Supreme Court case). So Congress, for the first time, passed a law authorizing the chief justice to hire an administrative assistant. 15, 2020).

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