The Democrats have certainly never been satisfied with the status quo, with economic inequities and civil rights inequities.

Democrats have been saying for years to their women's rights and civil rights base: 'Vote for us, and we'll save the Supreme Court.' Now, they have stepped back from using that power.

This is the first time that the Civil Rights Division in the Department of Justice has filed against a hotel chain on a nationwide basis.

He put forth an anti-Rosa Parks judge. ... Just maybe, we need a White House conference on civil rights.

[(AP) CBC Wants Roberts Probed on Civil Rights: A Roberts who would limit the Supreme Court's reach would please the 10 Republicans on the committee, who used their opening statements Monday to complain about the Supreme Court's reach into areas they felt were more properly left to local, state and national legislators.] Perhaps the Supreme Court's most notorious exercise of raw political power came in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, two 1973 cases based on false statements which invented a constitutional right to abortion, ... The issue had been handled by the people through their elected representatives prior to that time.

John Roberts consistently has taken the most narrow, restrictive views of civil rights and women's rights.