Why does the court decide to strike down the law mandate segregation in schools but not the law in other cases

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Frontiero V RichardsonWhy does the court decide to strike down the law mandate segregation in schools but not the law in other cases
In the first citation you posted the Supreme Court did decide that segregated public schools were a violation of the 14th Amendment and, in that decision, they overturned their previous decision in Plessy Vs. Ferguson in the 19th Century. That second citation reflected something new in the military. That was the case of female members who had male spouses and those spouses were not considered to be dependents. In any case, the Court ruled that practice to be unconstitutional. In my last overseas assignment I served with a female Navy Captain and her male spouse was considered to be a dependent husband and he had the ID card to prove it.


In short, both cases are done and corrections were made. Anytime there is a perceived wrong with some law, that law can be challenged through a ';test case'; to determine if the law is constitutional. Such was the case with Lieutenant Frontiero.Why does the court decide to strike down the law mandate segregation in schools but not the law in other cases
Could it be 1st they struck down the ten commandments. Just a thought. Seems ever since that happened school's are plagued with violence. Just a thought!





Funny, mine was the only answer and some who didn't have bulls enough to reply, gave me a thumbs down.





I will excespt that as an ';and now I know I'm right';