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🗓️1930s: Powell v. Alabama We represented nine Black children who were accused, with only testimonial evidence, of raping two white women and sentenced to death for it. SCOTUS sided in the kids' favor, affirming a critical right to counsel for defendants in death penalty cases. — PolitiTweet.org

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🗓️1920s: Scopes v. Tennessee In our first major case, we represented John Scopes, who was arrested for teaching evolution. Scopes was found guilty, but the verdict was reversed by the state Supreme Court. Laws prohibiting teaching evolution were then defeated in many states. — PolitiTweet.org

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🗓️1940s: Korematsu v. United States During World War II, the government took people of Japanese descent from their homes and held them in internment camps with no due process. Our plaintiff, Fred Korematsu, refused to go. We lost his case, but were on the right side of history. — PolitiTweet.org

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