Word: orval
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...summer of 1957, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to block the integration of Little Rock's Central High School, and overnight the city became a symbol of the South's estrangement from the rest of the nation. Last week, 30 years later almost to the day, Little Rock evoked a radically different image: as a symbol of the kingmaker role that the South hopes to play in the selection of the next President. Eight candidates (six Democrats and two Republicans) traveled to the Arkansas capital to address the Southern Legislative Conference, a convocation...
Meese focused his attack on Cooper vs. Aaron, a 1958 decision prompted by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus' defiant resistance to the court's earlier landmark school-desegregation ruling, Brown vs. Board of Education. In a unanimous decision, the Justices pronounced that their decisions were the "supreme law of the land." Nonsense, said Meese. Yes, a Supreme Court decision "binds the parties in a case and also the Executive Branch for whatever enforcement is necessary. But such a decision does not establish a 'supreme law of the land' that is binding on all persons and parts of government, henceforth and forevermore...