The Supreme Court: No Friend of Freedom

April 2 (Bloomberg) -- There’s a story Americans havelearned about the Supreme Court, a story that affects the way weview high-profile cases like the ones about same-sex marriagethat it heard last week.

In this story, the Supreme Court has played a crucial,maybe the crucial, role in our country’s progress toward evergreater freedom and justice. Brown v. Board of Education -- the1954 decision that outlawed separate-but-equal public schools --is central to that story, the shining example of how the courthas broadened our constitutional guarantees.