State legislatures and lower courts openly resisted Roe and Brown mandates

Evidence

Several state legislatures, for example, either ignored Roe v. Wade or enacted laws clearly inconsistent with its mandates. Most Southern school districts did not desegregate their schools in the decade after Brown II, and some district court judges abetted their noncompliance by refusing to enforce Brown. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 3196

Categorization

• XREF: Pairs with the course’s foundational-values theme: competing understandings of equality drove resistance to Brown.
• SEED: Angle: the lower federal courts as a bottleneck — how district judges quietly nullified Supreme Court doctrine.