WASHINGTON, March 26, 2013 — The tide of history surges forward this week as the issue of gay rights comes before the U.S. Supreme Court. The question is whether the Court will try to stem that tide or whether Chief Justice John Roberts will act boldly, doing an Earl Warren, and make history. Chief Justice Earl Warren led what is now called the Warren Court through some of the most important, landmark cases in modern history, from protecting the right of privacy to “one man, one vote” to banning segregation in the public schools. Warren was a Republican, even being the 1948 GOP’s vice-presidential nominee, and was thought to be a conservative when President Eisenhower...
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