In September 1958, sixty years ago next week, the United States Supreme Court finally earned its hard-fought reputation as a co-equal branch of the federal government, in a courtroom drama filled with urgency and uncertainty.

For perhaps the first time, the high court put muscle behind its mandate, asserting in unequivocal terms that its interpretation of the Constitution was the "supreme law of the land," and ordering immediate state compliance.
Cooper v. Aaron, 358 U.S. 1 (1958), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, which held that the states are bound by the Court's decisions and must enforce them even if the states disagreed with them.
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Interesting historical flashback from 60 years ago... in what was the beginning of the very liberal Warren court of the 1960s, the Supreme Court ruled that only its interpretation of the Constitution was valid, and that the states must bow down and submit to its authority if any state or local laws contradicted the high court's edicts.

That original case was the impetus used to force the southern states to allow full-blown integration of black children into all public schools, and was the basis of many landmark Supreme Court decisions since.

It's kind of ironic, because now (for the past 30 years) where the conservatives have held a razor-thin majority on the Supreme Court, and possibly moreso after Trump is done making appointments, they now get to "ram" their edicts down the throats of the states and the states have to accept it, which could be good news for gun rights.

What's remarkable, as that Fox News article pointed out near the end, is how the public now seems to accept the Supreme Court's mandate to definitively decide the law. As Justice Breyer pointed out: "What was remarkable about it is that even though vast numbers of Americans thought it was wrong," and even though Breyer himself thought it wrongly decided, "people followed it. In other places, there would have been guns and bullets. The fact that no blood was shed after Bush v. Gore, is what makes America great."