The Federal Judiciary. The branch of government that is the overseer of the other two branches. The branch of government that interprets the key to our democracy--The Constitution and the law of this land.
This is the branch that determined separate but equal schooling for black children was wrong. This is the branch that determined selling contraception was legal. This is the branch that stopped the recounting of ballots in Florida and declared Bush the winner. Imagine a country where some of these issues were decided differently: Where school prayer was still mandatory, where a right to privacy didn't exist, where Al Gore was elected president. Some of the most important decisions of this country do not get made in the Congress or the White House, they get made in the Federal courthouse.
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