Analysis: How often does the Supreme Court overturn precedents like Roe v. Wade?
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During that time frame, the court also expanded free speech, protecting inflammatory statements that don’t directly incite violence and creating much looser limits on obscenity . It also overturned previous opinions that said the Constitution’s limits on police power applied only to the federal government, applying stricter rules to local police searches and granting defendants in state courts the right to a lawyer .
There was only one major reversal on rights during the 37 years after the spurt of activity that ended in the 1970s. In the wake of the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard because he was gay, the court overturned anti-sodomy laws that made homosexuality illegal
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