Word: momen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...single tense momen in the question-and-answer session occurred when a law student asked about a memo which the justice had written when he was a clerk at the court during the Brown v. Board of Education case, which began the process of desegregation. The memo said that the doctrine of "seperate but equal" "was right and should be affirmed." Rehnquist answered that he did not remember what he had said when his civil rights record almost cost him his appointment during his own Senate confirmation hearings...