"For many decades, the courts upheld racial segregation; then, suddenly, they didn’t. For many decades, the courts let the Post Office decide which books people could read; then, suddenly, they didn’t. In both cases, and many others that could be cited, the laws hadn’t changed; society did. And the courts responded accordingly."
Fred Kaplan in The New York Times notes the fiftieth anniversary of a landmark anti-censorship case.
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