court cases have questioned the constitutionality of laws put in place to prevent a certain kind of person from doing something. In Loving v. Virginia, Mildred Jeter, an African/Native American mix, and Richard Loving, a white man, challenged the state of Virginia's law that banned interracial marriage between whites and blacks. At the end of the trial, the Supreme Court ruled that, by refusing to recognise the union of marriage between a black woman and a white male, or vice versa, Virginia was going…
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